NOBODY IS PERFECT

It sounds humble—until you realize it contradicts God to His face.

"Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations…"
— Genesis 6:9

"Job… was perfect and upright, and one that feared God…"
— Job 1:1

"Walk before me, and be thou perfect."
— Genesis 17:1

"They were both righteous before God… walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless."
— Luke 1:6

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father… is perfect."
— Matthew 5:48

Here's the question that ought to leave a lump in our throat:

If God calls someone perfect, and we won't—who's wrong?

Somewhere along the way, we decided "perfect" had to mean "sinless perfection" and swapped out the dictionary to justify our pet doctrine. Then we turned it into a punchline for our chosen frailty and dared to call it humility.

Think about it—we usually say "nobody's perfect" to lower the bar until our failures feel normal, and almost never as a means of exalting God's holiness. Regardless, it's not a biblical statement.

But Jesus didn't say, "Be realistic."
He said: “Be perfect.”

That's not a metaphor.
That's a mandate.
We would do well to know what He means when He says it, and not just hide behind what we mean when we say it.

We didn’t just shrink the standard; we protected ourselves from what obedience might cost.

So maybe the real problem isn't that perfection is impossible—it's that we're terrified of what God might actually do in us if we believed it wasn't.

Or worse… what it would expose about the excuses we've baptized as theology.

When you're ready, let's dive into What It Means to Be Perfect.