Perfection Hurts My Brain

Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect...

-----There are stunning implications to the truth that the Word of God is perfect. Everyone judges. Whatever our eyes fall upon we evaluate. This is fine and natural in almost every single instance because we almost never see perfect things. But this will not work when we come upon the only perfect thing we will see in our lifetimes: the Bible. When we look at it we can no longer evaluate what we are looking at, and yet there are things that are unpleasant to us, that seem completely wrong, and that are offensive. Since we know the Bible is perfect, however, we must attribute all the faults we see to ourselves instead of to it. This is one way I think the Bible is like a mirror. We cannot evaluate it but only ourselves as we look at it. For instance, when someone gets offended that God would command Israel to kill every living thing among the Canaanites, they should be ashamed that their mind is so twisted by sin that they cannot see God's right to command such a thing. Practically, when there is a command that contradicts our lives we must not try to change it, but we must seek for God to change us.