The Savior taught that we “should be perfect.”¹⁷ This can seem so daunting. I can clearly see my personal inadequacies and am painfully aware of the distance between me and perfection. We may have a tendency to think we have to perfect ourselves, but that is not possible. Following every suggestion in every self-help book in the world will not bring it about. There is only one way and one name whereby perfection comes. We are “made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood.”¹⁸ Our perfection is only possible through God’s grace. – Paul V. Johnson, “Be Perfected in Him,” Ensign (CR) October 2022