He calls you perfect

There is a saying in our culture that is often too familiar. It goes like this: “Well, no one is perfect. We all make mistakes.”

Try saying that outloud to yourself a few times and see how you feel in your spirit.

It wasn’t until about a year ago when I started to have an issue with this mentality that we’re not perfect. It’s as if we use it as an excuse to continue on in our confusion or unhealthy habits that we have picked up whether it was from our childhood or from systemic religion.

Sure we all make mistakes, but why add I’m not perfect? Making mistakes doesn’t mean that one is not perfect.

In fact, Jesus says the opposite concerning you sand I.

Jesus says in his sermon on the mount, “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matt. 5:48).”

He’s not commanding us to perform religious rituals here. And he is certainly not asking us to undergo a process of becoming something that we aren’t. Jesus is saying for us to just be.

Perhaps the reason why we have always said that no one perfect is because deep down, we don’t believe that we are perfect, or that we still believe that we have to make ourselves perfect for God?

Well, if our perfection was based on our performance, then every shortcoming or sin that we have committed would actually prevent our perfection. I will let you think about that for a moment.

The truth is that we are not in the process of becoming perfect. We are in the process of catching the revelation that we are indeed perfect now because of the finished work of Jesus.

The only thing that is in process is our minds catching up to the reality of we are perfect as sons/daughters in the Kingdom of God.

“If you expect perfection upon yourself, then you will expect perfection upon everyone else.”

We are indeed still living under an old mindset when we allow ourselves to believe that we aren’t perfect in Abba’s eyes. The Apostle Paul preached relentlessly in the New Testament on our newfound reality in Christ when it comes to how the Father sees us.

“And although you were previously alienated and hostile in attitude (our minds), engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His body of flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister (Colossians 1:21-23 NASB).”

The only reason why we are indifferent in out actions towards God, ourselves, and others is because we are still hostile in our thinking. If we come to realization that we are and have been separated in our minds, we can effortlessly change the way we are living. He has always seen us as those who are holy, blameless (perfect), and restored.

We often take the following verse (23) about advancing in faith think that we must begin to resort to how we can do it ourselves. That’s because we have defined faith inaccurately. Faith is not an action. It is a complete assurance of who Yahweh is, what He has done on our behalf, and how He sees us.

Now that we have defined what faith actually is, we know that true faith is knowing how loved we are by God and being completely assured of the perfect of Jesus being dispensed into our lives.

His perfection in us does not expect perfection in deed, but it invites us to live assured of how he sees us, so you can’t help but live in perfecton.

Start calling yourself perfect. See how it changes the way you think and live as a result. It may feel foreign at first, but it’s the truth. The truth will set you free as it always does.

This agreement with our perfection in Christ is actually a mark of us walking in a deeper understanding of mature sonship.