God is perfect in grace, in wisdom, in knowledge, in beauty, in holiness, in love, in power, in righteousness, in justice, in all that He is and all that He does. There is no thought or word or deed of God that is less than the ultimate it could be.

     It is not that God does things perfectly, it is that He Himself is perfect and, therefore, all that He says or does is perfect. God cannot issue forth from Himself anything that is imperfect, for imperfection does not dwell within Him. Not even the possibility of imperfection can be found within His being. We creatures of God, products of the Adamic fall, should take great joy and hope in the perfection of Him who created us.

     God made original man, the man (1), in His image and likeness.

     Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
     So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them  (Genesis 1:26-27).

     Then came the disobedience of the man and woman and their expulsion from the garden of Eden, and the man, Adam, began to reproduce after his image and likeness.

     This is the written account of Adam's line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
     He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man."
     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.  (Genesis 5:1-2)

     Since then, humanity has only been able to struggle toward but never reach the perfection we inherently know we should attain. But always, no matter the amount of education or affluence or technological advancements, perfection remains far out of grasp. A star to dream upon but never reach.

     But there shall come a day for us who are in Christ "when that which is perfect has come"(1 Corinthians 13:10), and though "it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is"(1 John 3:2) [italics for emphasis].

     On that day, when God's eternal purpose in Christ is fully manifested, when this time/space universe is no more, when the age that is to come has come, when the universe sparkles again in the glory of its creation, when the lion lies down with the lamb, on that day we will put off these imperfect bodies of flesh and put on one like His, perfected no longer only in spirit (Hebrews 10:14) but now in all ways, for we will be eternally part of Him who is perfect.

Blessed be God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ forever and ever!

  (1) The name "Adam" means "man" or "the man." See Genesis 1:26

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