In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” This is an impossibility for human beings if we understand perfection, in this Greek sense, meaning “without flaws.” But in Hebrew, perfection means compassion. Luke’s Gospel reflects this by saying, “Be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate.” Jesus says, “If you love me, you’ll keep my word; if you don’t keep my word, don’t pretend that you are loving me.” There isn’t a single thing you can do to make God love you more, and there isn’t a single thing you can do to make God love you less. There will be only one set of questions asked in getting to heaven: “Did you feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit the prisoners?”