In his life-changing encounter with God at the burning bush, Moses was privileged to learn God’s name: I am who I am. This simple name affirms that God is not defined by anything or anyone that might be thought outside himself. On the contrary, all that exists, and is not God, is but a manifestation and expression of who God is—it never defines him. Accordingly, becoming perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, includes guarding against having our identity defined by the judgments, opinions, and attitudes that others have concerning us—or, especially, by the way the treat us and relate to us. Thus, for example, retaliating in kind against the enemy who harms us, is but one instance of allowing that enemy to define us and thereby obscure our true identity as children of our heavenly Father. For as Jesus explains, the Father’s identity as Love is never affected by the opposition of the bad or the unjust, upon whom he unfailingly makes his sun rise and the rain to fall. This is another way of expressing God’s perfect freedom and so his call for us to love our enemies is a summons to share in that same freedom by which we become fully human and more like our heavenly Father.