What are your measurements?

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I was glad when legislators decided America would not adopt the metric system. I simply didn’t want to have to learn to use measurements that were so foreign to me. I understood the current measurement system already in place.

I wish I could say the same about new measurements in our culture.

For example, I’m completely lost when it comes to units of measure used for things computer-related. What, exactly is a byte? What’s a megabyte? Or a gigabyte? Or various amounts of RAM? Or ROM?

I know many of my techno-nerdish friends out there could immediately ramble off an understanding of those terms, all while laughing in disbelief that I don’t understand such simple things!

But I don’t. I’ve never had a source of learning for those things, so I don’t have a real grasp of what their true measure really is.

Many of us are the same way when it comes to God’s “measurement system.” The Bible teaches us that God is utterly holy, that He is a just God, that He is righteous, and that He is love. He doesn’t “have” these traits or characteristics … He is holy, He is love! His measure is just and His standard is righteous:

“The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds,” Psalm 145:17.

“This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all,” 1 John 1:5.

“For I proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God! The Rock! His work is perfect, for all His ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He,” Deuteronomy 32:3-4.

To have a better understanding of God, we need to understand these measures that reveal God to us. Learning these measures can be summed up in the example and life of Jesus Christ, who displayed all these measures of God’s character in His physical life on earth.

Knowing such characteristic measures not only helps us better understand God, but helps us understand the whole measure God is calling us to:

“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ,” Ephesians 4:11-13.

How are you doing with learning God’s measurement system?

Scotty