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Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. — Matthew 5:48
This is not a command to try harder—it is a revelation that God's standard is absolute and we cannot reach it. That is exactly the point: we are driven to Christ who is our perfection, and in Him we are presented faultless before the throne. The Gospel does not lower the bar; it lifts us to meet it through the perfect righteousness of Jesus. So we press on, not to earn acceptance, but because we are already accepted in the Beloved.
By Christ Himself DevotionalBe perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. — Matthew 5:48
This is not a command to try harder—it is a revelation that God's standard is absolute and we cannot reach it. That is exactly the point: we are driven to Christ who is our perfection, and in Him we are presented faultless before the throne. The Gospel does not lower the bar; it lifts us to meet it through the perfect righteousness of Jesus. So we press on, not to earn acceptance, but because we are already accepted in the Beloved.