Be perfect ( Jude v 24 )

Our lovely Saviour said the following,'Be perfect,therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect ( Matthew 5 v 48)  What a challenge,is it possible?,in ourselves no,in fact the more one grows in holiness the more conscious one is of their imperfections. Consider what the greatest of the apostles wrote in Romans 7 v 24 ,' What a wretched man I am, ',yes, it is the apostle speaking, it is Leon Morris who writes the following,'The more we advance spiritually the more clearly we see the high standards God sets for his people and the more deeply we deplore the extent of our shortcoming'.When our Lord spoke those words in Matthew 5 v 48, He is exhorting us to be always striving to be perfect ,my study Bible declares,'We should aspire to be as much like Christ as possible,in holiness,maturity,and love'. I read the following prayer,'God,humble my pride,extinguish the last stirrings of my ego,obliterate whatever remains of worldly ambition and carnality, and in these last days of a mortal existence, help me to serve only Thy   purposes, to speak and write only Thy words, to think only Thy thoughts, to have no other prayer than; ''Thy will be done''. In other words be a true convert'  in Jesus name Amen'