A Prayer for the Pursuit of Perfection

Your Daily Prayer

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	A prayer for the pursuit of perfection by Meg Buker, read by Liam Arton.
0:17.7	Be perfect therefore as your Heavenly Father is perfect, Matthew 5.48.
0:25.2	Why do you expect me to be perfect?
0:27.6	Every teenager asks this as they are being disciplined or held accountable.
0:32.4	The pressure that they and we put on ourselves to be better than we are is more immense
0:38.6	than we like to admit.
0:41.5	Buried under denial, shame and guilt lies a sinner in everyone in need of a Savior.
0:50.2	I don't expect you to be perfect.
0:51.9	I repeatedly explain to my daughter, but I do expect your best effort.
0:57.5	Your Heavenly Father expects and holds us accountable for no less a standard.
1:04.0	The same effort one student applies to achieve straight A's could lead the next to barely
1:10.7	passing grades.
1:12.1	The effort is the most important lesson in character development.
1:17.9	The above verse commands us to be perfect or complete and whole.
1:23.9	When I study Bible explains of Matthew 5.48, Jesus sets up the high ideal of perfect or
1:30.0	complete love, including both attitude and action.
1:35.7	This is God's high standard for His people, empowered by the presence of Jesus in their
1:41.8	midst.
1:44.4	Perfection is an illusion for humanity, but not for God.
1:49.8	We strive for it because in every human heart lies the desire to be closer to God.
1:56.2	To be close to our holy God requires the pursuit of perfection.
2:04.1	The NIV application commentary explains, the future tense holds out an emphatic goal
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