Not Perfect, Perfected

This afternoon, I had the opportunity to clear up a misconception about the Celestial Kingdom. Some thought that a person had to be practically perfect to qualify for the Celestial Kingdom, but I reminded them that Jesus Christ is the only person who managed to achieve perfection, though we can all be perfected by the power of His Atonement. We cannot be perfect (We can try, but we should not expect ourselves to succeed.), but through the grace of Jesus Christ, we can be perfected and have our sins washed away so we can be deemed worthy of the Celestial Kingdom, even if our actions haven't always been Celestial. The important thing, I reminded them (and myself), is that we are trying to be good. As long as we keep trying to keep the commandments and keep working toward our eventual perfection, God can make up the difference. We cannot be perfect through our own efforts, and we will never be truly worthy of anything that only perfect beings deserve, but we can "come unto Christ, and be perfected in him" (Moroni 10:32), and that's what it really takes to qualify for the Celestial Kingdom.