Look How Tall I Am!

2 Corinthians 10:12  Oh, don’t worry; we wouldn’t dare say that we are as wonderful as these other men who tell you how important they are! But they are only comparing themselves with each other, using themselves as the standard of measurement. How ignorant!

A five year old walks into the kitchen to talk to his mom. He is smiling a huge grin of accomplishment and says, “Mommy, I am six feet tall!”

“Son, I think you are closer to three feet tall,” his mother gently says.

“Oh, no, mommy, I’m six feet tall, I measured myself.” He runs out of the room and returns with a stick with a red line drawn on it. “See, mommy, I’m six feet tall.”

“You know what, son, you are right!” With that, the boy runs off and the mom sets aside the stick with hand written numbers and the line at six feet. The boy had made his own measuring stick, assuring that he was, indeed, six feet tall.

The only problem was that he wasn’t really six feet tall, he was closer to three feet tall. All of the child-like belief in his heart and all of the homemade rulers in the world weren’t going to change that.

When we look at our lives we need to make sure we are using the right measuring stick. The standard we aspire to isn’t made by this world, or your best friends, or the media. The standard we are measured by is Jesus. And all of the people who think we need to re-imagine the Bible and look at changing it to fit our way of thinking isn’t going to change that.

The true measuring stick for us is God and his Word. The world may think you are smaller, but if you meet God’s standard you are more than six feet tall to him!

Today’s Readings: 1 Samuel 8-10; 2 Corinthians 10