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“Perfection” has absolutely nothing to do with performance, or obedience; but everything to do with our being infused by the Spirit of our Father’s love (through the preaching of The Cross of Jesus Christ), and thereby enabled to love… one another, as well as all men and women… with our Father’s very love. Loving our enemies, blessing them that curse us, doing good to them that hate us, and praying for them which despitefully use us, and persecute us; now this is True Perfection… actually being the sons and daughters of our Father, who is in heaven! Where are these things being emphasized today? No, today, everything is become one big talent show, information-competition and political frenzy; attempting to attract and fixate the attention and affection of the feeble-minded, and the pretentious narcissist, upon the open spectacle of some outward show or vain performance in the eyes of conceited men and women, for the purpose of encouraging people to participate as judges, tearing apart one another with their vicious mouths while sitting in the seat of the scornful. If perfection were based upon performance, obedience or “not making any mistakes”; then our Father would be a rewarder of good, and a punisher of evil. If our Father is a rewarder of good, and a punisher of evil; then how do we explain that He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends His rain on the just and on the unjust; excluding no one outside of The Circle of His Love, even as He included everyone on His Cross (have we ever noticed a full rainbow, the complete “circle” of it)? How do we explain that the Father never rewards the apparent, “perfect obedience” of the Older Prodigal Son; while at the same time, never punishing the blatant disobedience and indiscretions of the Younger Prodigal Son? And how can we even claim to know, and preach a “God” who is, allegedly, a rewarder of good and a punisher of evil; when Jesus Himself teaches emphatically: "...there is none good but one, that is, God.” To “be perfect,” even as our Father who is in heaven “is perfect,” is for us to be divinely enabled (through the preaching of The Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ) to exclude no one outside of The Circle of Our Love; just as our Heavenly Father excludes no one outside of The Circle of His Love…
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