From today’s Scripture: “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”—Mt 5:48

“But God, I’m not you!” “I’m not perfect like You, God!”

This is pretty much how I felt about this Scripture passage until one day I came to realize that this is a call toward perfection by embodying the Father’s perfect love. This is a journey that doesn’t happen overnight, but this lifelong pursuit of holiness can make us into saints! If we embrace Jesus’ call to perfection by loving as God loves, we become that reflection of God’s unconditional love achieved through his grace.

Let us pray: Lord, we are not perfect now, but may we grow ever deeper in your unconditional love so that we can love all people in that perfect way you do!

Today’s author is Brother Craig Digmann, a missioner in Washington County, North Carolina. 

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