“… Until we all come unto the measure
of the stature
of the fullness of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:13
I have a friend who is from a different country, but lives here in the US. He owns property in his homeland, and still loves to return there for time with family and friends…lots of good memories.
With his repeated visits to his homeland, he decided to build a house as an investment as well as for his own use when visiting there. But he did most of the decision-making concerning the new building via telephone with his contractor. He had his plans drawn out and sent to his builder. But there was one detail that they both missed, because they were each using the measuring system with which they were each most familiar. For the builder, it was in metric. For my friend, it was feet and inches. Not the same!
Because the systems of measure of each man was such an assumed, usual daily practice, it was never mentioned that one was thinking in metric, while the other was thinking feet and inches.
When my friend went to see his new house for the first time, he was shocked to find that it was a very large house….far bigger than he had planned and expected! They had used common numbers, but the values of the measuring system of each was very different. They’d both made their own plans using their own measuring system, never realizing they were entirely different systems. Everything had been built according to the plan. But the end result was NOT!
We all tend to measure the realities of our lives according to the measurements used by our own little world. We may silently compare our own life details with those of others . . . our looks, our homes, our children, our spouses, our jobs, our income, and even our spirituality. But we don’t realize that we are “measuring” all of those things with our own system of measurement. We’ve learned to assess values, sizes, talents, and lives according to our own frames of references . . . our own experiences in life. We believe that our “measuring system” is true and common to everyone around us.
But we’re not using the correct measuring tool. We’re just using our own device, or the measuring devices used by the people of our personal world.
The only True Measure is God’s. . . the Creator of All. If we miss that foundational fact, we’re making constant mistakes concerning what should be.
God, the Creator of All that exists, laid out tons of measurements for His Creation to follow . . . concerning the realities of this Earth, and the human race and how it was intended to work. When we turn away from His Measuring Rod – His One Absolute, and begin using a different system, everything goes awry. All that was Planned comes out way off from the Plan. . . relationships, homes, families . . . the Earth itself.
Our only True Measure is Christ Himself.
What measures are you using?
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