In Search of God's Perfection [Paperback]

Follow legendary teacher and author Andrew Murray as he takes you through the many appearances of the wordperfectin Scripture. From these passages, Murray concludes that…

• Perfection is possible and attainable.
• To know perfection, we must accept God’s commands and obey them.
• Perfection is not an arbitrary command; the nature of God can ask for nothing less.
• Perfection is the highest aim of what God, in His great power, can do for us.

Perfection is not some intangible level of existence that sounds good in theory but is impossible to achieve in real life. Perfection is not only obtainable, but it should be our goal as believers. God has made divine provision for each of us to become perfect.

Andrew Murray(1828–1917) was an amazingly prolific Christian writer. He lived and ministered as both a pastor and author in the towns and villages of South Africa. Some of Murray’s earliest works were written to provide nurture and guidance to Christians, whether young or old in the faith; they were actually an extension of his pastoral work. Once books such asAbide in Christ, Divine Healing,andWith Christ in the School of Prayerwere written, Murray became widely known, and new books from his pen were awaited with great eagerness throughout the world.
He wrote to give daily practical help to many of the people in his congregation who lived out in the farming communities and could come into town for church services only on rare occasions. As he wrote these books of instruction, Murray adopted the practice of placing many of his more devotional books into thirty-one separate readings to correspond with the days of the month.
At the age of seventy-eight, Murray resigned from the pastorate and devoted most of his time to his manuscripts. He continued to write profusely, moving from one book to the next with an intensity of purpose and a zeal that few men of God have evlc