Perfect

Saturday February 26^th, Matthew 5: ⁴⁶ If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? ⁴⁷ And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? ⁴⁸ Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.  Being perfect could be construed as doing your best to live as a child of God, basking in the grace of God.  It is not looking down on others or other tribes or other communities or faiths or nations; it is simply loving God and living as a part of God’s great creation call good.  Being nice to friends is easy.  Being nice to relatives a bit harder.  Being nice to enemies might be the hardest, but it brings you closer to God.  So be perfect, which means, live your life surrounded by the grace of God and try to see the world through God’s eyes.  Then perhaps you will hear the words that started this whole dissertation in Matthew 5, Blessed are you.