PERFECTION AND HUMILITY..
Perfection is the greatest possible attainment of life. But perfection has its dangers. Perfection may beget in us pride and selfsatisfaction. Imperfection rightly used begets in us the Christian grace of humility. Because imperfect, we abase ourselves and take our refuge in the Cross of Christ. It must be for this reason that perfection is attained so very slowly in our actual experiences. God said unto children of Israel through Moses: “TI will not drive them (the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite) out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. By little and little, I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.” Exodus xxi. 29, 30. By little and little the Merciful Father will drive imperfections out from within our hearts, lest by becoming perfect too suddenly, worse imperfections may multiply against us than the imperfections of flesh and mind, and desolation reign in domain of spirit. So then, in matter of perfection, as in every thing else, may His will be done, and not ours.