How Can You Be Perfect?

Colossians 1: ²⁸We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. ²⁹To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.

What is Paul saying? Can we be perfect? Should we work harder at being a good christian so we are made perfect? I can see from this passage you could mis-interpret it this way. But read on! You and I can not be perfect…a part from Christ living in you. And it goes on to say that we labor and work…with HIS power, not our power. DO NOT read this passage as something else. This is one of the greatest explanations of how we operate in and through Jesus. STOP trying and START living in him.

How does this work in our life? The more you try in your own strength, the more you will get wasted. The more you give up and surrender your life the Christ, the more power he will give you. This is totally counterintuitive but it’s true. If you labor for your agenda, you labor in vain, if you labor for his agenda, you have his strength. Again, counterintuitive. I love it!