Nothing In This World Is Perfect ... Stop Expecting It

Common Sense Commentary: The Hebrew and Greek words translated "perfect" in both Old and New Testaments  means  "Complete, Whole, Accurate and Finished". That is not what it means in our understanding today. Over the years the word "perfect' has come to mean "without fault" which is totally out of focus with its meaning in Biblical times. In this post I am not using it in its Biblical sense but as it is understood today ... "without fault". so my title is, "Nothing in this world is without fault".


Human nature has a strange, perverse twist built in. We are all the product of a fallen race. The nearest humanity, or the world, has ever been to perfection was between creation and Eve's conversation with Lucifer. Human sinlessness lasted for 25 short verses in Genesis 2. After that, everyone and everything on Earth has been faulty ... except for Jesus who walked among us for 33 years. "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Heb.4:15.  But, other than Jesus, humanly speaking, nothing in this world is perfect ... except in our imagination ... our mental "image" of how we think things should be, but never will be. People are constantly seeking perfection and never finding it. The perfect meal, the perfect house, the perfect deal, the perfect spouse. This human obsession for something better, something perfect, when we ourselves are something less, has resulted in dissatisfaction, disillusionment and distress. There are no perfect jobs, perfect bosses, perfect cars or perfect horses, perfect doctors or perfect nurses, perfect neighbors or perfect churches. So accept yourself as less than perfect and accept your faulty spouse as equal to you. Accept your children and your parents as only human ... neither gods nor angels. Make the best of who you are and be the best human you can be....with God's help. And stop your judging and contempt for the similarly imperfect people around you. For none of us measure up to Jesus and none of us equal human perfection's lie or imagination. We are vaporous, gasous, infectious, defective human people who need a bath every day, blow our noses, stumble, mumble and fumble through life, misspeak, mistreat and imagine we deserve better ... when we deserve less. God's mercy and grace on our fallen race are our only hope of deliverance. So with an imperfect mind and an imperfect heart, my imperfect words attempt to describe the greatness and glory and goodness of God which is the nearest to perfection I will ever come ... until we see Jesus. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3:2." 

Until then, pray the Serenity Prayer with a slight change in the words, in red, by me. 

“Lord grant me the serenity to accept live above the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”