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Be perfect - Episode 6-17, January 17, 2016

Jan 17, 2016

A daily devotional through the recorded words Jesus spoke while He walked alongside us. Our website http://alittlewalkwithgod.com.

Today's Scripture Focus

Matthew 5:43-48

devotional summary

We really get hung up on that call to “be perfect,” don’t we? But would Jesus tell us to do something that we couldn’t do? Would God give us a command that was impossible to frustrate us throughout our life? I don’t think God works that way. I think God wants us to experience His joy and peace and comfort now and through eternity. I think He wants us to get a glimpse of heaven here before He takes us to be with Him for eternity. So He calls us to “be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect.”

Here’s the catch. What does perfect mean? Does it mean I will never make a mistake? Does it mean I can go through life and my math always works? Does it mean I can expect never to say the wrong word and never to hurt someone’s feelings by doing so? Does it mean every business decision I make will end up as a profitable one? Rhetorical questions with a clear answer. No.

Today's Bible reading plan:

Read it in a year - Romans 5-6

see the whole year's plan here