Seeking Perfection, is Seeking Him

Gray contends that perfect love casts out fear (I John 4:18), but that we don't always love perfectly. We love out of our fallen human nature that is spiked with selfishness and infiltrated with insecurities. So our love is not always expressed or received purely.

Checking the word origin here for perfect, you find the notion of maturity, completeness. It conjures up a bearing fruit concept. This is a better picture for us who want to live in the John 15 notion of abiding and bearing fruit.

We need to seek the One who is perfect and His perfect love, so we can share that and not our own. We want to overflow with His love, not our problems.