How perfection and free will connect IMO

How do free will and the words be perfect connect with each other?

The word perfect is in the bible 99 times and the word choose is in the bible 59 times in the KJV.

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Deuteronomy 8:13 Thou shalt be perfect in the Lord thy God.

In the bible God tells us to "be perfect" what does that mean??

How can he expect us to be perfect?  I was taught that God was the only perfect thing/person.  It just doesn't make sense to most of us on how we are to achieve this goal.  Why would he say this if it is not possible?

1 Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his statutes, and to keep his commandments, at this day.

How do we accomplish this?  And how does the word free will fit into this equation?

One thing that God gave us is free will.  He gives us choices in life so that we can essentially "control" it. 

Deu 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life that both thou and they seed may live.

God gives us the choice as to what path we want to take.  Do we want to live eternal life in heaven or in hell? Only we can make that choice. 

Job 34:4 Let us choose to use judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

This verse is very interesting bc it ties being "perfect"  and free will together.  We are to use our judgement in making our choices.  If you are being "perfect" in the Lord you are using him as your counselor and going to him before you make your decisions.  We are to go to God and let him lead us to the decision-therefore God who is perfection-has has helped us use our free will and choose whether or not to listen to him and make the "perfect" decision.

Phillipians 1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose, I wot not.

Keep your focus on God in every decision you make so that you shall "be perfect" as God tells us to be.  Remember that the choices that you make today with your free will, will affect your tomorrow. 

Written by ME  ~Joleda