Do you measure up to what the world says is good?

[Beaver]

Do you measure up to what the world says is good?

Deuteronomy 25:13-16 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. “You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. “You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. “For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

Did you measure up today? Did your bathroom scale make you feel good or bad? Did your SAT score tell you how smart you are or let you know how dumb you just might be? Does your bank account balance give you a feeling of comfort, or set you on the edge of your seat to worry? Did your medical report say you are the picture of health, or that you are one cookie away from the grave? Can you bench press 25 lbs. or 400 lbs.?

You being Christian need to measure up to God’s standard. When we try and measure to the world’s standard of measure, it is to set us in a place higher or lower than others. If your SAT score is 1400, you believe you are a step above the person with 1000. If your bathroom scale says you are in the normal weight range, you feel pretty good. You may not look any better, but according to the world’s way to measure you feel pretty good. You set the standards for your life by measuring up to others, when you should be using God’s standard to set your goals. When you are given a measured number in this world it is according to the average of what the world says is normal. If you do not fit in the normal category you become either better than someone or worse than someone. When you accept Jesus and use Him to set your standard you will see that all men without Christ are the same. After you accept Christ as your savior, you will then realize that what the world says is normal does not even show up on God’s ruler.

Let your standard of normal be set by God’s Word. You do not want to miss Jesus’s second coming because He does not show up on the world’s standard scale, and you do not think He is who He says He is.

It has happened before!

[Joey]

This, like all of your posts is powerful. But it is sooo true, the world is always the first to tell you this measures up, that doesn’t, you can do this, you can’t do that, your car is slow, you are a C student. People get stuck in ruts of trying to measure up to the Jones’. We are conditioned to strive for the world’s excellence and will burn up all of our energy to learn and do the things that we need to do. This leaves me with a question.

Since we are measuring up to God’s word we should be shooting for excellence in everything we do, right? The only difference is the way that we go about doing it, whether the excellence is because we put our life in divine hands, or because we left our families and drove ourselves crazy trying to keep up.

In this case, the signs following a Christian should be excellence that the world cannot explain, right? Having it all because we are not doing it for ourselves, or the world, but for God.

[Beaver]

As we seek God first in all we do, God will besure to guide us to excellence. God’s desire for us is, for us to have all we need and desire. God wants us to enjoy this life His way. When we accept Jesus as our savior and use the Gifts He paid for at calvary to be more than conquerors in this world. We do all we do as if for God. This in turn leaves us with a daily smile, health, sound mind, without fear or worry. This is true excellence. Nothing missing or nothing broken.

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