From a viewer:

It sure would be nice to be perfect right now, wouldn't it?  But it doesn't take much self-examination to realize that we are still far from perfection. There are still flaws in our make-up; there are still areas that need work.  There are still times when we do or say things that we know aren't right. We have to admit that perfection is a long way off.  At times, we find ourselves wondering;  Will it ever happen?  Can it ever happen?

But did you know the Father demands perfection right now?   He never commanded us to become perfect; He commanded us to be perfect!  Note carefully what He says in Matthew 5:48 - "Be yet therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect".  That's sobering, especially when we hear how serious God is about our being perfect.

The Scriptures say: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10).   Perfection is a matter of all or nothing!   As this passage brings out, 99.99 percent goodness is still failure in God's sight.

And that is a failure He doesn't overlook.  Instead, that is a failure He curses! "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them" (Galatians 3:10).   There is no room for error.   If a person doesn't continue to do everything in God's law he is under God's curse.  As James said, he is guilty of breaking the whole law!   Most sobering of all is seeing what God's curse consists of.

If you are not perfect right now ... if you have ever failed just one time in the past ... you are on the road to outer darkness.  To such Jesus says, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels"  (Matthew 25:41).

But Heavenly Father has not deserted us.  He sent Jesus not to show us how to be perfect, but to be perfect for us.  As our Substitute Jesus freely and fully conferred His perfection on us.  "For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are being sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).  Because Jesus kept all of God's law perfectly in our place, because Jesus removed forever our debt to God with the offering of His life, Heavenly Father accepts us as perfect right now, not because of what we are, not because of what we have done, not because of what we can still do, but because Jesus was already perfect for us!

Perfection now!  This not only Heavenly Father's demand of us, it is also His free gift to us.  Jesus has already fulfilled for us all the requirements for our living eternally with Heavenly Father.  Only by wrapping ourselves in His perfection can we be perfect in God's sight.  Trying to become
perfect ourselves only places us under God's curse.  Therefore, be perfect by relying solely on Christ's perfection for you.

Sincerely,

Jamie