June 23, 2014

Here is some thinking material!

We have all heard someone say, 'most perfect', or 'perfectest'. But think about this -There are three types of comparitive adjectives: positive, comparitive, and superlative. Good is positive, better/worse is comparitive, and best/worst is superlative. Likewise, sad is positive, less/more sad is comparitive, and least/most sad is superlative.

Now the word perfect is in and of itself, perfect. It cannot be more or less than what it is. If you say 'more' or 'most perfect', you are implying that there was some imperfectness beforehand that in comparison makes this version more or most perfect. On the other hand, if something is LESS perfect, it is in fact imperfect, and not perfect at all. Perfectness demands complete and total perfection... one small bit of imperfect defiles ALL the perfect and ALL the perfect is now negated as imperfect.

We are sinful. No matter how good we are or how good we become, we will always have some imperfect in us. Now God IS perfect... therefore, He cannot have our imperfectness in His presence otherwise defiling His perfectness, and making it imperfect. He had to find a way to make our imperfect perfect. This is impossible. But with OUR GOD, all things are possible!

Our imperfect demanded a sentence: death. Since God wants communion with us, but we are imperfect, something or someone NEEDS to die for atonement. For Adam and Eve, it meant a life of pain and ultimately, death, which contradicted their eternal life originally promised. For the Isrealites, it meant the death of livestock in their stead. But this wasn't enough. If a sacrifice is made by an imperfect hand, it is defiled, and does not reconcile sin. Which is why we need Jesus.

Jesus is God, so He is perfect. By dying on the cross, a perfect man, He took our sin. He fulfilled the price DEMANDED by a perfect God. God desperately loves us, but could not stand us because of our imperfect. He had His son die, the perfect sacrifice, to once and for all wipe our imperfect away. The imperfect BECAME perfect. Instead of looking at OUR sin, God looks at HIS son. We can commune with God once again because we are perfected through our faith in Christ Jesus... not because we are perfect in our own terms. Our imperfectness does not exist anymore, and we no longer defile God's perfect nature!!! We are FREE!