Be perfect.

I know, I know. We can't be perfect.  Matthew 5:48   Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.   
What does that mean? He knows that we can be perfect.  He knows that we are destined to sin...Adam and Eve laid that out for us.  The devotion got me thinking though, he commands us here to be perfect like our Heavenly Father, he wants us to repent and work towards perfection, growing closer to him each day we're here on Earth so that when we do reach the gates of heaven we don't have to wait very long.  We may not be perfect but we can strive for it each day.  God's mercy is there, it's available for us each and everyday so we have to start today working towards what God has commanded us.  Getting somewhere starts with a first step right?

Seems to be a recurrent theme, we sin, God forgives, we pray, God hears. How do we go about changing that statement?  What things do we need to do differently each day?  Perhaps that is a conversation we should have with our Lord?

In fact, I think I'll get ready for mass and go have one this evening.  Blessings...


Romans 3:22-25  "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe...For there is no distinction; all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God.  They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, hi his blood to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins.


Romans 5:8  "But God proves his love for us in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us."