Be perfect—it's a done deal

Mary Baker Eddy says “Perfection underlies reality.” To restate, however inelegantly, whatever is real—really real—is perfect. That’s astounding! Popular thought moves in the opposite direction—“Get real.” “I love you for your faults.” “Who are you—Little Miss Perfect?” Perfection is seen as unattainable. Labeling someone as a perfectionist is not a compliment.

But the Sermon on the Mount states, “Be ye therefore perfect.” This is not a suggestion from Jesus that we all try harder to be good. It’s a fait accompli. It’s stating the facts of being rather than a command to get better. Perfection is divine law, not an airy wish. Be ye perfect because that’s how you were created and how you remain. Perfection isn’t a choice, it’s a revelation.

So, what about this other stuff—the character flaws that haunt us all? We need to get back to the comment, “Get real.” Time for a reality check. You know you are God’s child. You know that God’s cherishes you as the loved of Love. Nothing about that can change. You remain perfect—I remain perfect. Face that which seems to say otherwise and see it for what it is; an error in focus, a mistake that, once seen, is automatically erased.

The Christ comes to us right where we are and gently leads us to the perception of perfection. Hold out your hand and rejoice in God’s perfect Love.

Ah, perfection,
Lynne Darner CS

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, 353:16-17
King James Bible, Matthew 5:48