#30 When We Are Perfect: A Warning
May 16th, 2008 by doing better
When we are perfect, everyone will hate us. Oh well! That is the cross we must bear.
Speaking of crosses, if the life of Jesus tells us anything, it should instruct us that being perfect will only get us killed.
Will we be happy, though? Please tell us that at least we will be happy when we are perfect!
Dear me, no. Happiness will be the last thing on our minds. The only thing we will think about is when will our perfection lapse, and how shall we bear it?
Why, then, are we going to all this effort to make ourselves perfect? Is it so that we can be more like God?
Not exactly. We are engaged in a competitive exercise. We are primarily concerned to show up all the people who have snubbed and ridiculed us over the years. The paradox of our striving is that, as we perfect ourselves, they will snub and ridicule us more than ever.
We cannot possibly win, and we cannot possibly be perfect, but that will not stop us from trying.