Perfection is not Yahweh's idea, at lest not as we currently understand the word. Perfection as we currently understand it means the totality of something, all that it will ever be as *best.* It is the superlative, the ceiling, the limit.
Wait? Limit? Yahweh does not limit anyone. Yahweh has no limits. He is infinite and ever expanding!
Well that leaves us with another option... this limit is always growing and is constantly becoming further and further beyond our reach. It is unattainable and we shall always and ever be less than. We shall never be perfect and we shall always be striving for something we can never have.
That doesn't sound like Yahweh either. Why would the same God who gave you everything in His Son now deny you this? He is not cruel, setting up standards that you can never reach. "Be holy as I am holy." If He asked you to do this, He would then empower you so to do.
So our options--as perfection is currently understood--is that it is either a limiting ceiling of our development and abilities or that it is an unattainable end goal for which we must constantly strive but never reach.
Clearly this was never Yahweh's idea, therefore perfection doesn't exist. Nothing that Yahweh didn't make truly exists.
So if perfection doesn't exist, what does it mean to "Be holy as [He is] holy" and attain that "perfect love" that casts out fear?
Yahweh has shown me recently that there is more, but there is no such thing as less. In other words, as soon as we accept Him and His Holy Spirit, we are FINISHED. He is, after all the "Author and Perfecter." He completed us and finished us before He even authored us, so that from our very inception we were perfect.
Perfection means being united with Yahweh. We are finished, done, and complete as soon as we accept His salvation and unity with Holy Spirit (which is our inception, our birth). Yet, as Yahweh is ever increasing and expanding, we also are growing and expanding. There are places (sometimes in our minds and bodies) into which Yahweh has not yet grown and expanded. We, in unity with Him, must also grow and expand there. We, in unity with Yahweh, are also ever going to be growing and increasing. There will be no limit or ceiling to who we are or what we can create with Yahweh.
Yet neither are we less-than because we are not there yet. Just as we would not consider an infant less human because he isn't an old man, neither can we consider ourselves less than perfect because we are not yet in all of the places that we will one day be.
Perfection is unity with Yahweh. We have been made perfect in love, and once we accept this, we do not need to ever fear being less.
