Are you pursuing the perfect look or perfect love?
Many people pursue the look, feel, and art of being perfect. In their eyes and the eyes of others. To have the perfect female body—booty, breasts, waistline, and limbs. And the males strive for a ripped or buff physique. Some people go all out to be the perfect looking athlete, performer, employee. Or to be the picture-perfect mother, wife, husband, or significant other. Of course, being perfect includes wearing the perfect clothes by designers like Coco Chanel, Giorgio Armani, and others.
But the key to life and life hereafter isn’t the perfect face or body.
Ready for a reality check?
Perfection like beauty is relative and in the eye of the beholder. The pursuit of body perfection is a path of disappointments. Why inject, lift, tuck, and obsess over physical appearance? The body is temporary, full of fear and torment. Fear of failure, old age, diseases, abandonment, and death.
Are you looking for perfection in the wrong things and places?
Perfect love in the Word of God is the perfection we should seek.
God loves everyone, and His love is everlasting. Because God is love, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment” (1John 4:18 KJV).
When we abide in God’s love, and He abides in us, we have peace, not fear.
Inward beauty replaces physical and outward obsessions. Wisdom displaces the fear of old age. And the joy of eternal life replaces the sting of death.
And love does it all.
What is love?
God is love. So, God eliminates the fear and torment in those who abide in Him.
God is always doing good things for us. Love is what love does. Love is perfected with action and proven with deeds.
God so loved the world that He gave his only son, Jesus Christ, to save the world.
But what about you and me? How do we perfect our love?
We should so love God that we esteem others better than we esteem ourselves.
With perfect and perfected love, we can stand before God with confidence.
Our bodies are imperfect.
But love is perfect.
I’m not perfect, but I love someone who is—God.
My prayer to God is to perfect his love in you and me that we may do more to help and serve others.
With perfected love, we have no fear in the presence of God.
May the love of Christ, who was born on Christmas morning, abide in us all.
Merry Christmas!