Sides of Perfection

God is perfect.
And as humans, that really aggravates us.

Let me explain. I'll use the best possible example to exemplify this: the Church.
We have our opinions, we have our hopes, we have our dreams and what we do with all of that is transplant it into attempting to define God, who (if you didn't know) is indescribable.

There is a natural paradox that occurs when humans come into relationship with their Creator God. They try to seek Him and know Him yet He is unknowable. They long to learn who He is and explore the vastness of His character and yet they can never truly know the fullness of His expansive nature. Thus the paradox of Christianity.

Due to this lack of ours (or rather the fact of our mortal and human nature) we fall to choosing. We come to choosing which side of God's perfection we most prefer and thus disunity abounds. For God is indeed perfect. Just as He is perfectly merciful He is also perfectly wrathful. He is in Jesus both the man of sorrows who knows the pain of the entire world and simultaneously the man who embodied the very reality of joy. He is always perfect, in everything. And we don't know how to deal with that.

So we choose a side. From denomination to denomination, from congregation to congregation, from person to person, we choose which side most pertains to our opinion and mindset. Some choose to focus on the perfection of God's love whilst shunning the reality of His vengeful anger. Others look primarily to the wrath of God and find themselves transfixed on God through fear, yet they fail to allow God as their Friend to come further into their hearts.

Due to the vastness of God's perfection there are countless sides that are taken within the Church and thus disunity and division occurs from the pride in our human nature. As we choose sides we are profaning the very perfection of God that we commit to pursue. God is perfect, which means that both sides and all aspects of His perfection are just that: perfect. There is no bias. There is no favoritism. God's perfection is in perfect balance. Unfortunately due to our choosing of sides on the expanse of God's perfection, we dispel so much of the perfection that God would bring into our own lives and into His Church.

We as the Church must come to want all of God, not just the sides that we prefer. As each Christian and human comes to this place and submits their pride unto God to accept all of His perfection, then unity like none ever seen before will erupt in the hearts of God's people and the peace that passes all understanding will be given room to move over all of us more and more.

Matthew 5:48
Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.