Christ is the GREATEST Teacher that the world has ever known. And what is the standard that He holds before all who believe in Him? “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48.
As God is perfect in His sphere, so man may be perfect in his sphere.
The ideal of Christian character is Christlikeness. 1 John 2:6. There is opened before us a path of constant advancement. We have an object to gain, a standard to reach, that includes everything good and pure and noble and elevated. There should be continual STRIVING and constant progress onward and upward toward perfection of character.
Paul says: “I count not myself to have apprehended (arrived at the goal): but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13, 14.
Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8, p.g. 64
STRIVE to enter in at the strait (narrow) gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able….Enter ye in at the strait (narrow) gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Luke 13:24; Matthew 7:13 KJV
Loud Cry Compendium 