Misplaced Standard
A few months ago I discovered something on the net that I thought was going to be very interesting and enlightening. Now, I know that most everyone had already known about "Yahoo answers" for a long time, but, excuse me, I don't get out much. Wow! What a concept... if I had a question... about anything, I could just ask it, and someone with much insight and experience in that particular field would answer. Unfortunately, like many things on the web, I found that most of the answers came from adolecents that camp out there because they have nothing better to do... and most of the stuff on "yahoo answers" was just the usual garbage you can find anywhere else. It turned out to be a kin to chat rooms... at least that's the way in appeared to me.
But I noticed something else... I could post answers myself! So, I looked under "Culture" and found a sub-category called "religion." Hey, maybe I could help someone out with a question. I have been studying the Word for 11 years very dilegently... now that's nothing compared to many of those lifelong saints, but, I figured, compared to much of the world it is quite a lot. And, after serving for three years as bi-vocational pastor, I thought that I would have at least some wisdom to share with someone. So I began to look through the questions... and, I chose my first one... then, after posting an answer, went and looked at some of the other answers that had been posted before mine. Oh my... what a lost and confused culture that we are when it comes to the truth of God's Word. I was already very concerned about this problem in our homeland, but what I saw in only a few days on this sight... well, I was very dismayed.
My brothers and sister, our's is a people who has misplaced our standard of truth. Relativism is inundating our culture. It seems that whatever I believe is true... and whatever you believe is true also... everyone's belief is truth... and most of these belief's are based on emotion and preferences... preferences that are usually guided by the flesh.
The last sentence in the Book of Judges is as follows... "in those days there was no king, and everyone did as they saw right in their own eyes." As Solomon said... "there is nothing new under the sun." One thing stays very constant it seems... free people, never want to answer to any authority.
The Holy Bible was once our nation's "standard of truth," whether folks wish to believe that fact or not. Most of our laws and national creed is based on the truth that is in the Word of God... but we are, as a people, rejecting that standard, just the way the Israelites rejected God as their King in favor of a human king. One thing I am sure of, God's Word is true from the front to the back... whether I believe it or not. It does not come to me... I must go to, and conform to it... as my standard for my life. If I don't, there will be grave consequences for me. This too applies to our nation and our people... we can reject God and His Word, but we will eventually have to pay the consequences... I believe sooner rather than later.
Oh church, in these darkest of days for God's saints, we of all people must not compromise the standard that we have been given. We must "hold fast," as Paul encouraged the Ephesians... hold fast to our standard, and to our faith. There is much confusion in this world today... and the only way to make a straight line is with the "plumb-line" that is God's Word... the standard that is alway straight, true and level. I pray that I am able to be a faithful "standard" bearer."
May God bless...
