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Perfection is my end

Perfection is my end. Even to myself this can sound ludicrous and unrealistic. The reality of the human condition is that perfection should be unattainable. In fact, perfection has been deemed so unattainable by human standards that the word is thrown around to mean something along the lines of ‘just about perfect’, or as good as objectively possible. I have been okay with that definition of perfection for a long time simply because I believed that perfection was something that was unattainable. No one should strive for perfection because no one is perfect; whatever that means. And then, I read Philippians 1:6 - “And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” No matter how often Jesus needs to remind me of His perfection through His Spirit and His Word I truly do believe that Jesus embodies the Perfection of the living God; creator of the universe. Perfection does exist, in God, and perfection has been a part