I would just like to take this time to apologize for not posting anything for way too long. Lets just say I was on sebaticle... I wasnt, but that sounds better.
Anyways, over the last couple of weeks I have been thinking about this idea of perfect and I wanted to share my thoughts with you. I hope you enjoy.
Perfection?
Are we ever perfect? Were we ever
designed to be perfect? Or were we just designed to know that we aren’t
perfect? If we were perfect then we would not need God because we wouldn’t need
saving. But we cannot exist without a God. And if we cannot exist without a God
does that mean we have to be imperfect to exist with a God? And does that mean
that we are not perfect and can never become perfect until we die and meet
Christ? Because perfect people do not need anything to fill the cracks in their
life. A perfect circle needs no extra work done to make it perfect. An
imperfect circle, however, needs the work of the one who knows perfect to come
and work on that circle. Without those imperfects can we ever truly experience
the work of the One who knows perfect? Because when we are perfect there is no
room for God to come in. Is it true that only broken people can be saved? And
if so, will be ever become unbroken in this life? Because if we do then we
become unsaveable, right? Is this just a catch-22 that God didn’t see coming?
Probably not. So is this the reason why we will never be perfect? Maybe. Or is
there something bigger that I am just missing? Also maybe. Going on that for a
few sentences, what if we could become perfect? Do you think it’s possible in
this life? Jesus was perfect but I don’t think that counts. Does the washing of
our slates when Jesus forgives our sins mean that we are perfect? Or does it
mean that our life debt has been paid for us? Are those two things the same
thing? I don’t think so. I think to have a debt paid means that you are
forgiven, but you aren’t perfect. Because you will still sin again and have
another debt to pay, another debt that has to be forgiven. Or, and hear me out for
this one, as Jesus forgives our debts, wipes our slate clean, are we, for that
moment, perfect? For those few seconds have we reached what people have been
striving for since the very beginning? Have we reached perfection? Even for
those few seconds, minutes, or hours before we sin again, have we obtained
perfection through Jesus Christ? Because if so that is momentous. If for those
few minutes we have attained perfection then that is huge. We need to blog
about it or something. That means that, throughout history, people have reached
perfection. Dude!, you need to tweet this. This is huge.
Or does perfection really exist
outside of God himself? Was perfection as we know it just an idea handed down
to us? Because do we really know what perfection is? I know that Jesus was
perfect, some people may disagree but for the sake of argument, I’m not even
gonna go there cause that could open a whole new can of worms. So we kinda have
an example of perfect. But do we really? Is the concept of perfection like the
concept of sophistication? Sophistication only exists because we’ve said it
enough times and we believe it now. Sophistication is a word used to describe
one way of doing things and to make it seem like that way is superior to other
ways. When you say something like “He is more sophisticated than his friend”
what you are really saying is that the friend is improper and probably sloppy.
People have used the word sophistication to describe the class system, i.e. the
upper class is more sophisticated than the lower class. And then in that we
have come to view sophistication as something that makes someone superior to
someone else. But that word was created by us, and we said it enough times and
used enough examples that we kinda know what it means, but if we think about
it, it’s just a meaningless word. Why does the upper class have more
sophistication than the lower class? Who says the poor people aren’t
sophisticated and the upper class aren’t? Have you ever thought of those
questions? The first definition of sophistication that the Merriam Webster
dictionary uses is: the use of sophistry:
sophistic reasoning (which, by the way, is stupid. I hate it when dictionary’s do that). The second definition
is: the process or
result of becoming cultured, knowledgeable, or disillusioned. This is, in
itself, useless. Because culture is not a word that you can really describe.
How do you define knowledgeable? And disillusioned? How can one say the other
is disillusioned? What if the person stating that claim is disillusioned and
the other is actually not?
Perfection may be the same way. Perfection
may just be an idea that we have created, said over and over again to make
ourselves believe that it’s real. Because how do we even define perfection. And
if it’s not definable can we reach it? How can we strive for something that
doesn’t exist? Was Jesus perfect? Or was he just whole? Cause I don’t know if
those two things are necessarily the same. Is this perfection just an idea? Let’s
try and take it one step at a time. Let’s say somebody obtains perfection. They
are just great. Everybody wants to be them. And I would definitely say that
this person has friends, right? Now let’s take someone who isn’t perfect, far
from it in fact. That person isn’t all that great. They are broken, maybe lost.
But in this, they have found something. They have touched on something greater.
Because it is through trails and imperfections that great friendships are made,
that great thoughts are thought, and that great things happen. That “perfect”
human being would never go through that because he/she is perfect. They wouldn’t fight unjustly, they wouldn’t get
angry unjustly, they wouldn’t etc., etc., etc. So is that perfect? It doesn’t
sound perfect. Or is that just a shallow perfect? Do you have to be broken to
become a deeper perfect? (I’m starting to see a flaw in our idea here.) Since
when was broken perfect?
I think we deviated off course.
Personally, I don’t think we were ever intended to be perfect. I don’t even know
if perfect exists. I think Jesus was whole. But the perfect thing I just think
we made up because having something to strive towards is a lot safer than being
down here, broken and lost. I think perfect was never meant to exist. And I
think it only exists because we’ve said it enough times. I think we are screwed
up people, and if we are gonna get anywhere then we need to recognize that.
Perfect doesn’t work because nothing can be added to that to improve on it. A
jigsaw puzzle only works because each piece needs another piece to attach onto
in to make it more complete. We work the same way. I believe that, if anything
fits the description of perfect its Jesus. But that whole idea of perfect I
think needs to be revisited. We destroy ourselves trying to obtain perfection,
and sometimes end up destroying others in the process as well. Or, if perfect
does exist, which is possible, we have to bring our idea of it back to the
drawing board and seriously reconsider what it means.
Because if perfect doesn’t exist,
can imperfect exist?
I don’t know. Those are just my
thoughts.
By the way, these are thoughts. I don’t
necessarily believe all that I say here. I try to ask questions from all sides
to get an understanding. I think that is much better than finding a definite
answer for questions like these. Because, most of the time, there is no
definite answer… but that’s a whole other issue. Maybe I’ll blog about that
next.
