For The Skeptic
The Perfect, Imperfect God
Whether you believe in God or not, I hope we can at least agree on this: if there were a God, we’d want Him to be perfect.
Not limited by our understanding, but far beyond it.
Not swayed by fragile emotions, but able to judge with perfect balance—justice, love, mercy, and grace in harmony.
We wouldn’t want a God who struggles through life like we do, who crumbles when everything is taken from Him.
We’d want a God who needs nothing, sustains everything, and speaks life into existence with a word.
If God were flawed like us—confined to our level of weakness and limited perspective—what would make Him worth following?
In the pages of Scripture, God clearly reveals what perfection looks like: through His ways, His commandments, His laws, and above all, His love. He makes this vision unmistakably clear in the life, words, and sacrifice of Jesus. Through Christ, God gives us a living example of His perfect standard—and shows us the cost of that perfection.
As God prepares a perfect family for a perfect Heaven—where He is the Father and we are His children—He reveals that His standard of perfection is far beyond our reach. But this isn’t meant to crush us. It’s meant to awaken us to our deep need for Him. In Jesus Christ, God offers the perfection we could never attain on our own.
Knowing this, we must come to grips with a humbling truth: we cannot understand or define perfection apart from God. We can’t create the recipe for something we’ve never truly seen. Only the One who is perfect can say what perfection requires to make Heaven what it’s meant to be.
Maybe it’s our pride—our refusal to accept our limitations—that keeps us from trusting God. We struggle to admit our weakness. We resist the idea of needing help. But maybe that’s the real test: will we humble ourselves enough to receive what we could never achieve? Or will we stubbornly cling to our illusions, hoping somehow to prove God wrong?
In the end, the perfection we long for isn’t something we can build—but something only God can give. And He already has, through Jesus.
