March 23
Psalms 119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
These are the words of a man who has lived a long and rich life. Only the young, the immature, the foolish and the blind of spirit and heart can believe in human perfection without God. Answer me the question if you can. Where in this world can we find perfect love, perfect friendship, perfect peace, perfect unity, perfect freedom, perfect faith, perfect beauty, perfect philosophy, perfect life, perfect death and perfect government? Anyone who claims the title of perfection, let it come before the impartial scrutiny of the eyes of the Truth of God. Let each be interrogated by virtue and integrity; be tested by the corrupting fires of selfishness and pride. Believe me my friend, like the morning mist of a Fall’s morning in the countryside, they will vanish and be no more. The smoke screen of their pretentious beauty will dry up and leave behind the naked truth of their corrupt state.
Call me cynical? Voltaire would cringe at the statement. Is it wrong to equate perfection solely with the God of Lights, with the Perfect Father*, truth in itself?
Oh weak, imperfect and searching man wherever and whoever we are, will when will we yield to the Perfect light of the Perfect truth? When will we enjoy the perfect beauty of the perfect Creator; live a perfect life in the perfect lace; die a perfect death, for a perfect resurrection? When we have perfect rust in the perfect Word of the perfect God
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
*Father: From the latin: pater, from the word “pattern”, as in “the model to follow”
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