Thursday the 26th

2Corinthians 10: 12

 

¹²We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

 

 

Be wise. The measuring stick that many measure themselves today is a very short stick; for some strange reason that stick looks much longer when they use it for it seems that the measure us quite well. However when you get that measuring stick in your hands you see it for what it is. The ruler only looks long when it is in others hands, the measurements are not even, and the numbers are skewed. There is but one way to measure ourselves and that is the measuring stick of Christ. Yes, that ruler is long, and precise, often when looking at it you might think that you will never measure up!

 

The difference is that the Lord loves you; all he is worried about is that you are measuring yourself correctly. The world will always be happy to let you measure yourself against their standards. The deck is stacked in their favor. You will always come up short with the world because the measurement is always changing! Hold yourself accountable, not to the expectations of this distorted world, but to the expectations of the truth, the light, and the way, which is Jesus Christ. His ruler is always the same, and you can depend on the accuracy. You might feel rather small at times, but I promise you that just like a seed that turns to a sapling, when we hold to the expectations, and measurements of Christ, we will all blossom into red oaks, tall, and straight reaching to the heavens with out stretched branches. We will not be the scraggly underbrush and thorn threes that are twisted and gnarled from trying to bend, and sway to the ever-changing world around us.

 

Peace,

Brian