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>THE MEASUREMENT MESS
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>A costly failure was the result of measuring by two different 
>standards. A lot of failures are,
>especially in the lives of believers in Jesus like us. You
>see, it happens when we try to measure our choices by two standards 
>that cannot possibly be
>reconciled; what the Bible tells us to do and what our culture
>says is OK - yes, even our Christian culture.
>
>That's why we need to hear this word for today from the Word of God 
>in Joshua 24:15. Then, as now,
>God's people were torn between a cultural drumbeat that
>was pulling them one way and the standards of their God. Here's the 
>challenge, "Throw away the gods
>our forefathers worshipped...in Egypt and serve the
>Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose 
>for yourselves this day whom you
>will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served...or
>the gods of the Amorites in whose land your are living. But as for 
>me and my household, we will
>serve the Lord."
>
>You have to make that same kind of clear-cut, no-compromise choice. 
>You just can't run your life by
>two different standards. Jesus said, "No man can serve
>two masters." Your culture says divorce is OK. Your God says, "I 
>hate divorce" (Malachi 2:16). The
>world around you says you have to accumulate more and
>more for security...Jesus says security comes from letting go of 
>what you have and trusting Him to
>take care of you. You lose your life by hanging onto
>it; you find your life by giving it away.
>
>The culture says something that portrays things that breaks God's 
>heart is "must see" TV or a "must
>see" movie. God says, "Guard your heart; it is the wellspring
>of life" (Proverbs 4:23). Conventional wisdom tells you that you 
>can't be totally honest and
>succeed. God says, "Put off falsehood and speak truthfully"
>(Ephesians 4:25) that He will only bless total integrity. Our 
>tolerant culture says, "There are many
>ways to God." Your Savior says, "I am the way, the
>truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father except by Me" (John 
>14:6). Those can't both be true.
>You have to choose one and stake everything on it.
>
>It's that way with all the choices I mentioned and so many more that 
>you're faced with each day. You
>can't keep vacillating; commuting back and forth between
>what the world around you says is right and what your Lord says is 
>right. You can't just go God's
>way when it's convenient, when it's easy, and when it
>doesn't cost you much. In God's words, you have to "choose this day 
>whom you will serve." When you
>do, life is a whole lot less confusing.
>
>Choose God's way always. If you keep trying to run your own life by 
>two different standards, you're
>going to crash.
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