be perfect.

"Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Mt. 5:48)

Perfection is a concept that gets passed around in all kinds of fake ways in our culture today... can you think of a few?

Hmmm... physical beauty (i.e., photoshopped and/or surgically enhanced beauty) = perfection

lots of money = perfection
etc... etc...

In other words, we often equate superficial or material things with perfection.

How often do we think about perfection in the context of the gospel passage the above quote is drawn from? In this passage, Christ is exhorting the disciples to treat people with equality and love, regardless of who they are or how they feel about them - "If you love those who love you, what recompense will you have?" - basically, because God "causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust" - in other words, God loves even those who do not return that love.

So really, love = perfection.

Of course, that's hard. It's much easier to treat people we like with kindness and love - and much harder to do so in the case of those we don't like.

But God never said it would be easy. He just said... be perfect... love. Tall order, eh?


+Peace and good.


And PS... I probably won't be near the blog tomorrow... so I'll catch you all on Thursday.