The Hope of Perfection
Mar 25, 2025 by Caitlyn Crissone
Perfect.
Webster's Dictionary defines "perfect" as "Being entirely without fault or defect."
The Garden of Eden is depicted as a place of perfect harmony. An environment free from sin, suffering, pain, and death. Better yet, the Garden of Eden was a state of perfect harmony with God.
But then sin entered. Adam and Eve had eaten the forbidden fruit. The one thing they were commanded not to eat. The decision to eat the fruit was an outright rebellion against God. Sin entered, and the perfect became imperfect.
So Adam and Eve hid. Or they attempted to anyway. God then asks a very interesting question: "Where are you?"
But it's not like He does not already know the answer. because He does. He is only asking for their benefit.
Adam and Eve needed to know that they had a big problem for the first time. At that moment, perhaps they realized that they could not fix what they had broken, that they could not restore what had been lost.
They cannot restore or revive their once-perfect union with God.
But from that moment until now, God has sought man.
He has come searching.
Come rescuing.
From that moment of the fall, God's rescue mission began.
This is hinted at by Paul in Colossians 1:13-14:
Webster's Dictionary defines "perfect" as "Being entirely without fault or defect."
The Garden of Eden is depicted as a place of perfect harmony. An environment free from sin, suffering, pain, and death. Better yet, the Garden of Eden was a state of perfect harmony with God.
But then sin entered. Adam and Eve had eaten the forbidden fruit. The one thing they were commanded not to eat. The decision to eat the fruit was an outright rebellion against God. Sin entered, and the perfect became imperfect.
So Adam and Eve hid. Or they attempted to anyway. God then asks a very interesting question: "Where are you?"
But it's not like He does not already know the answer. because He does. He is only asking for their benefit.
Adam and Eve needed to know that they had a big problem for the first time. At that moment, perhaps they realized that they could not fix what they had broken, that they could not restore what had been lost.
They cannot restore or revive their once-perfect union with God.
But from that moment until now, God has sought man.
He has come searching.
Come rescuing.
From that moment of the fall, God's rescue mission began.
This is hinted at by Paul in Colossians 1:13-14:
Who hath delivered us from eh power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
in whom we have the redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins."
in whom we have the redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins."
Eden and all her perfection is hard for you and me to comprehend; it is difficult to imagine a perfect world without sin and sorrow: I suppose it's because we have seen too much of this corrupt one we live in.
Yet that perfect world in which we speak was the one we were all created for. We were created for Eden, God's perfect kingdom. I look around and I know that where I am is not where I am supposed to be.
But there is coming a day when we will be in Paradise, where we were supposed to be all along. A day when there will be no sin, suffering, pain, or death.
No separation.
No goodbyes.
Once again, man will live in perfect harmony with God. But we cannot get here on our own. We must accept Jesus. He asks this same question to you and me- "Where are you?"
Before we can ever receive God's grace, we must answer the same question that God had asked Adam and Eve.
God asks us all individually this question of our personal whereabouts and location.
And He leaves the answer with us. There are only two destinations that our answers can lead to, but still, God allows us the choice- he gives us the ability to decide for ourselves how we are going to respond.
And depending on how you react and respond to this question, you will have the assurance of future perfection.
The perfection that God intended for each of us when he first created mankind in the Garden of Eden.
So long as we breathe the polluted air of the imperfect earth, we also will be Imperfect. That is why we often feel so broken, so incomplete. Because we are meant to be perfect.
But we can't be perfect without HIm.
It is only through Him that we have this hope of perfection.
Yet that perfect world in which we speak was the one we were all created for. We were created for Eden, God's perfect kingdom. I look around and I know that where I am is not where I am supposed to be.
But there is coming a day when we will be in Paradise, where we were supposed to be all along. A day when there will be no sin, suffering, pain, or death.
No separation.
No goodbyes.
Once again, man will live in perfect harmony with God. But we cannot get here on our own. We must accept Jesus. He asks this same question to you and me- "Where are you?"
Before we can ever receive God's grace, we must answer the same question that God had asked Adam and Eve.
God asks us all individually this question of our personal whereabouts and location.
And He leaves the answer with us. There are only two destinations that our answers can lead to, but still, God allows us the choice- he gives us the ability to decide for ourselves how we are going to respond.
And depending on how you react and respond to this question, you will have the assurance of future perfection.
The perfection that God intended for each of us when he first created mankind in the Garden of Eden.
So long as we breathe the polluted air of the imperfect earth, we also will be Imperfect. That is why we often feel so broken, so incomplete. Because we are meant to be perfect.
But we can't be perfect without HIm.
It is only through Him that we have this hope of perfection.
