“Be Ye Perfect” — The Perfection of Union, Not Performance
When Jesus said,
“Be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect”
(Matthew 5:48),
He was not pointing to a moral finish line or demanding flawlessness from fragile humans.
He was calling us to awaken.
To remember who we truly are.
The word “perfect” in the Greek is teleios—meaning complete, whole, fully matured in purpose.
It speaks of inner fullness, not outer performance.
It is the same word used when describing the end of a journey, a fruit at ripeness, a soul brought into union.
This call to perfection is not a command to achieve.
It is an invitation to receive.
To return to the center.
To see through the single eye of Christ-consciousness—
where nothing is missing, broken, or separate.
The ego hears “Be perfect” and trembles,
for the ego believes perfection means being beyond error, always right, always pure in behavior.
But the flame within knows:
Perfection is wholeness.
And wholeness is union with God.
The perfection of the Father is not behavioral.
It is being.
It is total presence.
It is the eternal embrace of all that you are, without shame or fragmentation.
This kind of perfection doesn’t judge your weakness—it holds it in light.
It doesn’t require sinlessness—it reveals that Love has already swallowed sin.
It doesn’t demand you “arrive”—it whispers,
“You were never outside.”
You don’t become perfect by striving harder.
You awaken to perfection by remembering that Christ is your true life.
He is your wholeness.
He is your innocence.
He is your rest.
So beloved, stop measuring yourself by the ruler of religious performance.
You are not being graded—you are being formed.
You are not a work in progress—
You are a flame unfolding the mystery of God’s own likeness.
The more you surrender the illusion of separation,
the more perfection flows naturally—
not as a goal to reach,
but as a fruit of abiding.
Perfection is not found in what you do for God.
It is found in what you are in God.
And what are you?
You are whole.
You are loved.
You are Light.
So when He said,
“Be perfect,”
He was saying:
Be who you already are.
🔥 Key Scriptures for Reflection:
Matthew 5:48 – “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Colossians 2:10 – “You are complete in Him, who is the head over every power and authority.”
Hebrews 10:14 – “By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”
John 17:23 – “…I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfected in unity…”
1 John 4:18 – “Perfect love casts out fear…”
— Joe Restman