We say someone is a perfectionist.
We don’t always mean it as a compliment. We feel we aren’t good enough for them, that their standards are so impossible that no one can live up to them.
“Live and let live,” we cry. “I’m perfect as I am.”
Yet, there are times we want a perfectionist in control.
- Building bridges.
- The foundation of our new house.
- Anyone who manufactures airplane engines…and the wings…and the fuselage.
- Food inspectors must be exacting. Not a morsel of mouse droppings can be allowed in our salad.
Careless activities that affect our health and safety need to be done to a higher standard.
What about our relationship with God? What should our standard be there?
Revelation 2:2 gives us Christ’s guideline:
“I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.”
It’s not enough to have safe bridges, long-lasting houses, durable airplanes, and rodent-free food. Those are all laudable, but we have something more important at hand.
We must peg our moral standards high and be perfectionists in our relationship with God. We must toss out evil and embrace the pure.
We must be an example the world can emulate, so they can find Christ through us.
When life really matters, Jesus is our model for perfection.
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