“He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.”
Deuteronomy 32:4 (NIV)
As we meditate this week on what our Lord meant when He told us that our heavenly Father is perfect, we will start with this declaration of Moses that God’s works are perfect.
Deuteronomy 32 is the song that Moses recited to the people before he left them to go to his death on Mount Nebo. He didn’t sing it, rather he recited it, so we may consider it a poem of some sort, for a song to us needs music. This song is full of theological truth and is so rich that it will never be exhausted by us reading it, for we will see something new each time.
Today let us notice that God’s works are perfect - no mistakes, no wrongdoing, - God’s works are perfect.
Now we may object by pointing towards the fallen state of our creation, or by pointing towards a handicapped child or even by pointing at ourselves in the mirror, for all of us are the work of God. But friend to object in that manner is disingenuous, for we know full well that what is wrong in this world is the result of the fall - the sin of Adam- it is the work of man that mars the work of God. Moses contrasts the God whose works are perfect with God’s people who are corrupt, and he calls on us to remember that although we are but few, that God in His perfection has established all the nations of the world in their places in such a way to benefit His people.
Let us fix our minds on the truth that God's works are perfect, for what is our hope in Christ- but that a perfect God takes the imperfect humans that we are and changes us little by little through the internal work of His Spirit until we see Him face to face and become perfect.
His works are perfect, that is they are without defect.
His works are perfect, that is they are complete.
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