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You’re perfect—truly!
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column August 22, 2025.
To everyone, Jesus gave this loving instruction: “Be ye therefore perfect” (Matthew 5:48). Then he followed up with some specifics: “even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
So, this perfection Jesus is referring to isn’t a material perfection. It is a perfection that’s reflected from the Father, God, whom the Bible also calls Spirit and Love. Without including even a molecule of matter, God stands forth as pure goodness and intelligent Love. Divine Spirit’s state of perfection is continuous, invulnerable, and unchangeable.
It’s encouraging to consider how each one of us, without exception, is designed to show forth God’s nature, including God’s continuous perfection. We all are made spiritually perfect, because we solely and fully express God’s essence, Spirit’s substance. To believe in the legitimacy of a presence or a situation that isn’t of God is to believe falsely.
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