Okay, okay. I know I’m not prolificate in my writing habits. My number one issue is I have to feel the

unction to do so and that gets stifled by so many surrounding issues on a daily basis. I have a one-track mind, so I tend to focus only on what is in front of me at the moment. The real problem, I suppose, is I can be in the middle of a task and hear something in my spirit to write about and I try to remember it for later and by the time I get to contemplate it I forget what it was because I didn’t write down the thought right at the time it came to me.

This happened yesterday. I drive a school bus. This job consists of two schools. A middle school and an elementary school can take a lot out of me, or most any bus driver for that matter. As I was ending my last run taking my elementary kids home a thought came to mind and I intended to elaborate on it last evening, except I forgot what it was until something I was looking at triggered it back to my thinking.

Perfection. Biblically speaking, perfection is a tricky word.

Matthew 5:48 – You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Romans 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Hebrews 2:10 – For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

James 1:4 – And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

The idea of spiritual maturity relates closely to the word perfection in the Bible. Humans are not perfect, but followers of Christ are encouraged to seek perfection. We are not expected to be perfect. Why?

Because perfection being related to the idea of maturity we have to grow into it. God doesn’t expect us to instantaneously become perfect or better said “mature”. In the New Testament, a Greek term for “perfection” can also mean “maturity.”

A newborn baby may be perfect in body or mind, but no where near readiness to perform as an adult. That is a process that takes time. They have to grow into the function of an adult.

There is so, so much to say about this, but may this little bit of understanding start you to thinking. We all need to grow in God, who is perfect in every way. Be an imitator of His nature by decerning right from wrong. Endure through the tests that come to us over a lifetime. Think about things in later life that come to us that would have devastated us in your younger years. We can handle those issues now without wringing our hands and minds being stressed out. We know how to handle them through the tests we endured.

Maturity plays in large part to our obtaining our perfection. Don’t worry about being perfect. Be more concerned about maturing. Perfection is the end result of maturity.