Perfect?

"...Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

Matthew 6:48

Do you know what it means to be perfect? If something is perfect it means that nothing is wrong with it. It means its complete or finished. It's all done and there's nothing to do to make it any better. But who is the one who decides if something is wrong or not? If you take some clay and make a vase and you finish it and feel like it came out exactly the way you wanted it to, then you think its perfect don't you? What if someone else comes along and says they think it should be a different color so they don't think its perfect, who is right? That's the problem with trying to be perfect. Everyone has their own opinion so its hard to tell who is right. The only way to be perfect is to live by God's truth--His opinion.

Truth means that something is real or right. It means its not a lie. If I tell you that the sun will rise tomorrow and it does, than I've told you the truth haven't I? But I could lie and tell you that your best friend said something mean about you when he didn't and that would not be true. The next time I tell you something you might not know if you can believe me because I might be a liar--someone who lies a lot. 

Some people think they are telling the truth but they aren't. It could be because they just don't know the truth so they make up an answer, or someone else lied to them so they are deceived. If a person believes a lie we call that being deceived. Eve believed the serpent's lie in the garden so she was deceived. That caused a horrible thing to happen and brought sin into the world. Being deceived makes your life full of problems!

God always tells the truth. He never lies and He never deceives people. He always knows the truth because He decides what truth is! You can always trust God. You can always believe what He says. He is the only one who is always right.