Sunday, April 25, 2010
Welcome Gretel and Inga!
Well. Our dreams are coming true! We now have two darling calves. Ed and the kids surprised me and worked on a nice stall for the "girls" yesterday while I was at a homeschool retreat. Today Ed, Yory, Lily and Paulina went and got Gretel and Inga while I was cleaning. I had no idea! Aren't they cute?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Yardstick
I read the following in my devotions this morning. It sums up watering down God's Word perfectly.
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. - Ephesians 4:13
Recently the local drug store gave us a yardstick. It was the square kind - thick and not easily broken. It was exactly thirty-six inches long. This yard stick represents a precise standard of measurement. It is consistent every time.
Suppose we would decide that the yardstick is too cumbersome to carry, so we would cut a piece of elastic exactly thirty-six inches long. We could roll it up and put it in our pocket. Elastic would also be more adaptable to the various sizes and shapes of objects to be measured. How foolish!
Truth, like the yardstick, can be inconvenient. Human nature looks for ways to dismiss truth that is not convenient, rather than to conform to God's standard. The carnal nature would like to change God's truth and stretch it so it just fits around the perimeter of my opinion. But opinions and situations change, and left to our own designs we would soon stretch the truth until it snaps.
Unbelief does not take God at His Word. A double minded man would hold up the yardstick proudly on Sunday, but allow himself the flexibility of elastic throughout the week. A church that applies truth in a careless manner will have nothing to extend to the seeker but a limp thread.
God does not compromise His standard, but rather He helps us to attain to the "measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." He does not leave us to struggle on in the mire of defeat, but extends to us a standard of truth that sets us free to stand on solid ground. We can choose to take either God's way or our own way, but in the end God will judge us according to the Truth.
Roger Miller - Margarettsville, NC
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. - Ephesians 4:13
Recently the local drug store gave us a yardstick. It was the square kind - thick and not easily broken. It was exactly thirty-six inches long. This yard stick represents a precise standard of measurement. It is consistent every time.
Suppose we would decide that the yardstick is too cumbersome to carry, so we would cut a piece of elastic exactly thirty-six inches long. We could roll it up and put it in our pocket. Elastic would also be more adaptable to the various sizes and shapes of objects to be measured. How foolish!
Truth, like the yardstick, can be inconvenient. Human nature looks for ways to dismiss truth that is not convenient, rather than to conform to God's standard. The carnal nature would like to change God's truth and stretch it so it just fits around the perimeter of my opinion. But opinions and situations change, and left to our own designs we would soon stretch the truth until it snaps.
Unbelief does not take God at His Word. A double minded man would hold up the yardstick proudly on Sunday, but allow himself the flexibility of elastic throughout the week. A church that applies truth in a careless manner will have nothing to extend to the seeker but a limp thread.
God does not compromise His standard, but rather He helps us to attain to the "measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." He does not leave us to struggle on in the mire of defeat, but extends to us a standard of truth that sets us free to stand on solid ground. We can choose to take either God's way or our own way, but in the end God will judge us according to the Truth.
Roger Miller - Margarettsville, NC
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