Perfect!

per·fect

[adj., n. pur-fikt; v. per-fekt] Show IPA

adjective

1.

conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.

2.

excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement: There is no perfect legal code. The proportions of this temple are almost perfect.

3.

exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose: a perfect actor to play Mr. Micawber; a perfect saw for cutting out keyholes.

4.

entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings: a perfect apple; the perfect crime.

5.

accurate, exact, or correct in every detail: a perfect copy.

 

When people consider G-d , I don’t think many really take into consideration the perfectness of Him.  YHWH is in every way perfect.   He is the absolute ideal.  Jehovah is complete.  The great I am exactly fits every need in every situation.  Elohim is entirely without flaw, defect, or shortcoming.  Adonai is correct in every detail.  The Ancient of Days is the definition of perfection.  El Shaddai stands alone in perfection.  His thoughts, His ways, his words, His judgments….  Everything about Him is perfect.


Man; man is not so perfect.  There was a reason the phrase came into being, nobody’s perfect.  We all make mistakes is a common theme we humans say.  It’s not that we don’t try, we do.  It is just a fact that we are not perfect.  Not a single one of us is perfect.  Most of us don’t even always try.  C’mon now, let’s be real.  You know that’s true.  In fact, a portion of us enjoys our imperfection.  They even revel in it.


There is an old saying that goes something like this, everyone wants to heaven, but nobody wants to die.  Unfortunately, death is one of those imperfections we inherited.  Our bodies are not perfect either and eventually they decay, or get damaged, to the point that life can no longer be sustained in them.  We die.  Then comes the tough question…  then what? 


We’d all like to think we could go to heaven, but there is a problem.  Heaven is perfect.  That is where the perfect El-Elyon lives.  If I have a glass of pure perfect water, nothing but straight H2O, and I add something to it that is not H2O, then that perfect glass of water has been contaminated.  It is no longer perfect.  That is the dilemma we face concerning heaven.   G-d, being perfect, cannot allow something that is imperfect into perfect heaven.  If He did, it would no longer be perfect.


I’ve seen people complain about this.  They say God is evil because he doesn’t let everyone into heaven.  Fact of the matter is, in our current state, no one is going to heaven.  We have all fallen short of perfection.  I don’t care how good you have been in life, you were never perfect.  Being imperfect, there is no way you can enter into a perfect place without corrupting it with your imperfection.


Yahweh understood this dilemma too.  God loves us and He wants us to love Him and spend forever with Him.  We can’t be together though as long as we are imperfect.  We will always be separated.  Or will we?


The Father, in his love and wisdom, made a way so that imperfect man could be made perfect.  He loved us so much that he sent His son into the world to live that perfect life we are incapable of, and then to shed his blood and die, substituting His perfect self in place of our imperfectness.  If we accept that trade, we are then covered by that blood and are made perfect so that we can then have fellowship with a perfect God, forever, in a perfect place, heaven. 


John 3” ¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
¹⁵ That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
¹⁸ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
²¹ But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.