The display message on my cell phone reads, “Be Perfect”. Usually I am the only one that sees it. It is there to help me out cause I know that every day I need all the help I can get.
The same message has been there for about a month…since I got home from school in late May. It has been simply and kindly nudging me toward the life God calls me to live.
As a follower of Jesus I have chosen to submit myself to God’s way of living on earth. I’m not seeking to be perfect in a worldly, unachieveable way…I’ve tried that before and know it doesn’t work out too well. The words “Be Perfect” help me to remember to willingly choose the way of our holy God whose name is love. He is perfect. I am seeking to be more and more like Him.
Scripture points the way…
Matthew tells us Jesus proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of heaven and healed the sick as he moved around his place in the world. Word got out and large crowds began to follow Him. He spoke on a mountainside to his disciples in the midst of crowds of people and shared with them how to enter the kingdom of God…how to enter God’s presence…to have eternal life…to receive the beautiful gift of salvation freely given by the Perfect One.
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect”. Matt 5:48
