Be Perfect....

Jesus said, "Be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect," but He also said, "Why do you call me 'good?'  Only God is good."

And how do we reconcile the two statements?  John, in the Book of Revelation, gives us the answer:  Behold, I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone open for Me, I will come in and sup with him and he with Me.

He will eat from our table---that is, participate in our fare, whatever it is.  And we shall eat from his table---His own life, His own communion with the Father.  By supping with Him, by sharing His life and allowing Him to share ours, we are transformed from "glory to glory," as Paul says, until at last we become indistinguishable in the Father's eyes from the Beloved Son.

God has made Himself as blind as Isaac, unable to see the liar and the cheat because what He tastes on His tongue is the food of His older, only begotten, first-born Son.  We become what we eat; our DNA is changed.  Paul says, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me to the glory of the Father."

Let us sit down at the table with Jesus; let us open our miserable lives to him, allowing Him free access to all that is within us.  Then we will be "perfect, as the Father in heaven is perfect."