feb.26

"the author and perfecter"

 

I did a lot of driving yesterday.  It had been a couple of months since I had seen some of my family members, so I though I would do a whirlwind tour of the tri-county area I grew up in so I could catch up.  As I was driving up the interstate, daydreaming like I normally do, I heard the aforementioned portion of scripture in a song.  I started contemplating those words as the following songs faded into the backround and thousands of pine trees blurred by.

"What does this mean?"  I wasn't as much seeking the original Greek or anything, just trying to soak in something immediate -- after all, I had never really thought much about those four words at all to begin with. 

"He made it", I thought, and "He made it perfect."  It really couldn't be much simpler than that, but the last word of my previous thought rung deep and loud, like a cathedral bell in my head.  "Perfect?" I can't even fathom that concept to tell you the truth.  I don't think any of us really understand perfect, I mean, how could we??  I get excited when things don't go horribly awry like I always expect them to.  Do you really think perfect is always on my horizon? 

Then I thought about all of those people in my life that could say they strive for perfection.  Do they even know what real perfection looks, sounds, feels, smells, tastes like?  I thought about how "other" and "above" God is to us, and how if we are always striving for perfect, then certainly none of us could have found it -- at least not in this world.

But God made our faith "perfect."  He intimately knows unbounded flawlessness.  Through His unbelievable suffering, and in His unreachable wisdom, He set forth something that cannot be shaken, just so we could be in union with Him -- totally astounding.

 

(the verse, by the way, is Hebrews 12:2)