“All have…come short of God’s glory.”~ Rom. 3:23
HIGH STANDARDS-BUT LITTLE PEOPLE
In all my years as a Christian, I have never found any man or woman who measured up to God’s standards. We all come short in some area; all of us fail to pass muster. Why then are these lofty commands given? It is because the Lord would have us aim high, so to speak. And though we will never hit the bulls-eye in this life, we’ll get closer than if we never had given it a shot.
GOD GIVES ELBOW ROOM
But it is very important to remember, God wrote His Rule Book with His Pen of Mercy. Therefore, you’ll find His requirements are not as rigid as the religious legalists would have you believe. David wrote, “I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.” Be careful when you draw God’s Sword to lay down His Law for others that you do not slice yourself with the opposite edge.
GOD REGARDS WHAT MAN DISREGARDS
The priests of Jesus’ day would not have taken Him into the priesthood, because He lacked the right credentials; nevertheless, God made Him a Priest. So says the book of Hebrews. Our Lord has a way of qualifying what man disqualifies. For example Jephthah, the son of a harlot; as found in the book of Judges, chapter eleven. Things which are broken are no longer of any use to us, so we discard them. But God doesn’t use anything until it is broken!
“When God wants to do an impossible task to preform, He takes an impossible man, and crushes him.”~ Allan Redpath
by an Aged Saint
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