[Sheldon]

mom3 wrote:

I grew up in a place and time as a youth where many of our church lessons encouraged us to find the mission our Heavenly Father had for us. Those ideals struck my deeply. I’ve never let go of them. I’ve internalized them so much, that one time I came to see the church’s calling practice, as a metaphor for God’s calling you. In my internalization the need for the church to give me a calling would fade out, and my calling from God would take over my objective. I haven’t thought of that idea in a while, but this quote brought it back to me. I loved the Individual Worth or Divine Nature of it.

That is what it means to be perfect. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48) The Greek word translated as perfect is teleios. Teleios means to be complete, wanting nothing necessary to completeness, or to do what you were meant to do. In other words, a teleios person is one who “meets the measure of his creation”

When I explain this to the teenage SS class, I used the example of a screwdriver. It may not be perfectly round, it may have some imperfections in it, but if it can turn a screw into a piece of wood, then it has met the measure of its creation, and does what it was designed for. It is perfect!

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