Who sets the standards?

I remember in school the anxiety of waiting for my grade after a particularly tough exam.  Sometimes you just knew that whatever excellence was, you hadn't achieved it and you were afraid of getting something below "C" level.  But then, sometimes the teacher would face the class and say something like, "Apparently one of us has failed to do our job....me to explain the concepts or you to comprehend and apply them.  So, I'm going to throw this test out and take another class to cover the material before I evaluate your knowledge."  Or he might decide to grade on a curve instead of an absolute score, assuming that the relative performance was a better indication of performance than the raw percentage of right answers.  In our world values, standards, and acceptable behavior are a matter of opinion, style, polls, financial backing and media support.  In America we have come to believe that "the majority rules" can be applied to right and wrong. 

 

If the world and the universe were truly controlled by men this might be the best we could do.  But man doesn't control the earth's rotation.  No man invented a snowflake, a squirrel, or a summer storm.  Just as no man can explain the mysterious combination of attraction to the opposite sex with the confounding challenge of comprehending the other gender, so it is obvious that man didn't even invent the most basic of relationships.  God is real and God is the only one with the authority to make the rules and set the standards.  God is our "go to " source for all the important questions and answers and even though we often fail the tests in life we can be grateful that the standards never change.  Aren't you glad that He gave us His Son as a focal point to see what being right, doing right and living right looks like. Even though we never get it perfectly right, there's great benefit in the pursuit and greater benefit in realizing our need for His presence.

 

Philippians 3:10-12 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith

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