Absolute and flawless perfection!',

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"One who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from
sinners, exalted above the heavens." Hebrews 7:26

When one sees, so often and so painfully, the shortcomings 
and imperfections of the best of people—how far they fall 
beneath even their own aspirations—irresolution and 
inconsistency, indolence, self-seeking, and vainglory in 
some; lack of patience, lack of courtesy, lack of zeal, lack 
of love and sympathy in others; in a word, the too evident 
traces of fallible and fallen human nature—how it magnifies 
the absolute and flawless perfection of the Great Master! 

As we all thus mourn, too truly and self-consciously, our 
defects and deficiencies, our blots and failures—what a 
wonderfully inspiring thought is that given by John, that the 
day is coming when perfection shall be attained! "Yes, dear 
friends, we are already God's children, and we can't even 
imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we 
do know that when He comes we will be like Him!" 1 John 3:2