The Source

Reading & Meditation Matt 5:1-18 “Be perfect, therefore as your heavenly father is perfect” v18   Once heard a story of a man sitting one day at home with his teenage daughter all of a sudden four healthy young men broke into his house and kidnapped his daughter, with him standing helpless before these four giants. The daughter screened ‘father save me’ the man replied. ‘As you can see Child, I am no match to this fierce looking men.’ The daughter’s next response changed the man’s continence ‘What have you done, that you say you can do nothing?’ motivated by the Child’s response, he ran inside the house brought out his cutlass and chased after the kidnappers; the kidnapers turning and saw the man giving a hot chase with a cutlass glinting threw the daughter away and took to their heels. With the same response to which the man’s daughter gave, God is asking today, ‘ What have you done to be perfect?’ (Matt 19:21). You keep saying nobody is perfect, b...