{"product_id":"9781462853120","title":"Who Says You Can't Be Perfect?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Sometimes we don’t believe we can do what God tells us to do or be what God\u003cbr\u003ecommands us to be simply because we don’t understand what He wants. That’s\u003cbr\u003ewhat happens for many Christians when they hear that famous command, “Be ye\u003cbr\u003etherefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”\u003cbr\u003eRight away we fall back to our personal human interpretation and decide that\u003cbr\u003e“perfect” isn’t really what Jesus meant, because “perfect” represents to us a level\u003cbr\u003eand a quality that is way beyond our reach.\u003cbr\u003eThen we start feeling guilty about not being able to hit the mark, so we start\u003cbr\u003elowering the target. Now, it’s not perfection God wants but “maturity.” That’s\u003cbr\u003ehow we fi x it up. Jesus didn’t really mean for us to be perfect; He meant for us to\u003cbr\u003ebe mature. Maturity is a process, a time line along which a person travels to reach\u003cbr\u003ea certain condition or state.\u003cbr\u003eThat’s not what perfection in God is. It’s not a process; it’s a decision. If we\u003cbr\u003emake the decision to be perfect as God has commanded, will He not make it\u003cbr\u003epossible for us to do that? When has God ever commanded us to do something\u003cbr\u003eor be something and not made the way for us to do that and be that? Has He\u003cbr\u003enot given the tools and the ministries to help us do that? Do we not have the\u003cbr\u003epresence of God, the leadership, teaching, and example of Jesus, the guidance of\u003cbr\u003eHis Word, and the power of the Holy Spirit to do what God the Father through\u003cbr\u003eJesus has commanded us to do?\u003cbr\u003eIf God has given us all that and made it possible for us to honor His command\u003cbr\u003eand be perfect as He is perfect, who is qualifi ed to say we can’t do it?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173212111088,"sku":"9781462853120","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462853120_p0.jpg?v=1763679173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462853120","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}