Absolutely relative

Are you doing relatively well?  "Absolutely," you might say.   We often look around at others to judge how we are doing personally.  It isn't hard to feel that we fall short because there are plenty of folks who are higher on one of the ladders we climb in life.  We climb ladders of career, property ownership, acceptance and acclaim.  We can easily be dismayed because there are always plenty of folks above us on the ladders and we may not be very interested to note the many who are on lower rungs of the same ladders.  It has been said by others that people can spend a lifetime climbing a ladder, only to realize too late that the ladder they've been climbing is leaning against the wrong building.  I suppose that we make a mistake when we look around on the human level to determine if we are moving in the vertical dimension.  Just like a car tailgating at 75 miles per hour, we may feel that we can't get ahead despite the fact that we're moving faster than a mile a minute toward our destination. We need an absolute reference to gauge progress.  We can only know if we are doing relatively well when our focus is locked in on the One who is absolutely true.     Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,       And your eyelids look right before you.        26 Ponder the path of your feet,       And let all your ways be established.        27 Do not turn to the right or the left;       Remove your foot from evil.   blessings, Rob Smith