God does not pick us because we are perfect. That’s easy enough to grasp—just look at any one of us! 

And His desire is to make us perfect. That’s also pretty simple.

The problems come in when our ideas about perfection do not align with God’s. 

We are not ever going to become the completely self-sufficient, absolute master of our domain, and never in need of outside help. That has nothing to do with the perfection God is talking about.

Everything He has created is interdependent. There is nothing in this universe that stands completely on its own; and we, as part of this good Creation, find our perfection by entering into the harmony which God has created and becoming a part of His story, which interweaves past, future and present into one seamless, beautiful whole.

I may well be the least likely one that God could choose to perform His will. But by the mere act of recognizing that, I draw one step closer to the perfection He has planned for me. And I become the most likely to give God the glory He deserves for His wonderful works, since I recognize the true source of all that is good in me.