Perfect is what we want. If a can of beans is bent then they have to be sold for less than the original price. If a box of cereal has a crushed corner we pick up the box next to it. Perfect marriages, perfect children, perfect lives is it too much to ask for? We might deny it but in reality we do those things above. How do I know? Just the other day I was picking up some coffee and I noticed the right corner of the package had a small defect. Now that didn’t hurt anything, the package wasn’t torn just bent in. Know what I did? I picked the one next to it. In this life we will never be perfect. God has given me a great life, it’s not perfect by no means. I have been married to the only woman I have ever known for 54 years; no that is not a typo and as good as our marriage is it’s not perfect. In chapter 10 of Hebrews and the first verse we read this.
Hebrews 10:1 (KJV) For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. The word shadow jumped out at me “shadow” Merrian Webster says this “the dark figure cast upon a surface by a body intercepting the rays from a source of light”
You need some kind of light source to generate a shadow. This can be the sun, a lamp or a flashlight. To cast a shadow you need an object that can block light rays. The closer an object is to the light source, the larger the shadow it casts. As we have written of the Tabernacle in the book of Exodus which points to Jesus Christ. The more we know the bigger the shadow of Jesus Christ. The less light of the Scriptures we have the smaller the shadow. But even with a big shadow it is not the object that is being reflected, only a shadow. The sacrifices will never give perfection; they only pointed to the Perfect Lamb of God Jesus Christ. The light of the Scripture will cast the shadow and the more scripture you know the bigger the light you have.
John 1:29 (KJV) The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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