GOD’S IMPERFECT GOODNESS

God’s Imperfect Goodness sounds like an oxymoron.

How could a perfect God have anything to do with anything imperfect?

Well, lets look into that a bit.

Many people try to be perfect. I’ve tried it at times. Perhaps you have as well.

We try to look perfect, walk perfect, live perfect, do perfect, and be perfect.

The thinking is, if I’m perfect then people will accept me, or perhaps even love me.

They won’t get mad at me because I won’t make mistakes.

I won’t disappoint anyone because I’ll be the very embodiment of perfection.

I’ll be that perfect husband, wife, child, mother, father, sibling, friend, and person.

Then I will deserve to be loved because I’m perfect! They’ll have to love me. Right?

And maybe, just maybe, my perfection can even win over the love of God.

Then God can be good to me too, because now I am perfect!

Unfortunately, so many people believe that God can’t possibly love them and want to be good to them, because they are not perfect.

My question would be, who is perfect? No one!

We are all flawed. The variations of are flaws aren’t important. We all have flaws.

We must understand that human beings call perfect and what God calls perfect are very different.

There was a man named Abram who was ninety-nine years old.

He found God, or rather God found him.

God requested that Abram be perfect. Hear what God said to him.

“I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be perfect”

How could God expect a ninety-nine-year-old man, who had lived his whole life as he was, whatever that was, to now be perfect?

That is because God’s perfect and our perfect are very different.

God’s request for Abram, you, and me, are still the same.

God wants us to be steadfast in our trust of him because He Is the Almighty God.

He wants us to be Perfect in unwavering trust in a perfectly good Almighty God.

God’s Imperfect Goodness does not require us to “Be Good”.

He just asks us to trust that He Is Good. No matter what we see, hear, or feel.

And when we stagger in our trust of him, because we will, he has his perfect grace waiting to catch us with open gentle arms.

So, when I hear the question asked…

How could a loving perfect God allow ______?

My answer is, I don’t know. But I trust and believe that He is Good and Loving.

I have Perfect Trust in Him.

  This a Thompson Truth.

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