The Perfectionist

         I am not a perfectionist. I am not even close to being a perfectionist. As a kid, I used to make model airplanes out of wooden kits. The rough shape was there but needed a lot of sanding. I hated sanding so went to step two and three which were gluing and painting. The trailing edge of the wings was almost a quarter inch thick and the fuselage was rough with splinters of balsa hanging from them. I like to take shortcuts on things that needed to be done in order to get to the things I wanted to do. I don't like to be sloppy but if a thread is hanging here or there, it really doesn't bother me that much. You see, I'm not a perfectionist. The loose thread bothers my wife and probably others who see it and who desire to attack me with a pair of scissors to remove the “Irish Pennant” (a term I learned while in boot camp.” I can get along in life okay in most things except one area and that is connected to the Great Perfectionist” God Himself. James 2:10 says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”

        Most people must not be perfectionists either because they seem to say, “I hope the good outweighs the bad and I get into heaven based on that assumption. People seem to know that God doesn't like sin and they know they do bad things, or sins, but hope that the good things will be more than the bad things on a scale and you end up in heaven. Unfortunately, the Bible doesn't say that. God's hatred of sin comes right down to “one sin.” If you do just one sin, and it doesn't matter which sin it is, you are guilty of the whole punishment. The one sin then makes you reap the consequences of the whole law. Even if you lived the life of “goody two shoes” but committed only one act of disobedience towards God, you would be declared “guilty.” You see, God is a Perfectionist. God knew that we would have trouble getting into heaven so He provided a Savior for us to make it possible for us to enter Glory and receive all of the benefits even if it was for only one sin or a hundred sins committed an hour for the past 100 years. You see, there are sins of commission, the things that you do that are wrong and the the sins of omission, the sins for things you should have been doing but failed to do. There are probably must as many or maybe even more sins of omission than there are sins of commission. Either way, you are a goner because of the fact of just even one sin in your life and we all know that isn't the case. We desperately needed to have a Savior and God gave us One in the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son. John 3:16 tells us that. You may be what you think is a perfectionist when it comes to your life here on earth with not a single hair out of place and perfectly matched outfits from head to toe but you are still guilty of sin according to Romans 3:23. Someday, things will be perfect if you have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ to be your personal Savior. Praise God that only He can make us perfect.