I could say I finally understand.  But I realize I did not understand before I understood.   Does that sound funny?  Well, it’s true.

And even now I likely don’t understand as I should.  In order to grow, however, we need to allow some level of understanding and say it is, at least for the moment, competent.  I mean, there was a time when I was competent enough to be moved into 2nd grade.  (I fear that might be the place I stopped learning)

All that preamble for the sake of saying this:
I see that everything I have or could have belongs to the Lord.  Most people would consider me rather dense because the Bible says so.  Doesn’t it?

Everything good I have belongs to Him.  What reasonable Christian would disagree?  But here’s a point that the majority of people miss.  Even the sin I had, and loved so much before I met Him, belongs to Him.

You think that’s a crazy and stupid statement?  What is sin?  Isn’t it simply a perversion of what is good?

So next time you’re talking to an un-saved person, tell them they have to give their sinful life back to God.  That oughta spin a mind or two.

Our entire experience here is based on segments of time.  One minute saw such accomplished.  An hour was stamped by this certain happening.  A day, a year, groups of years, and so on.

I’m having troubles with a distinctly different marking system.  More and more I am convinced that God measures our advances toward holy behavior.  His system can’t be quantified by us because it’s measures and goals are outside physics.  He doesn’t really care what we build, or don’t, in any certain time stamp.

The demands of His measure are far more serious than obeying the laws of society.  Society changes its mind on every issue.  God’s demands are eternal, thus never change.  Here we measure how we met and conquered change. 

He helps us if we ask.  But the things of this world are not His direct focus.  That may go some distance in explaining what we call “un-answered prayer”.  He cares deeply about us, but not over the same issues.

Everything’s different between the two measures.  But His is, by far, the most compelling.  And what shall we do when the two measures compound uopn us?  Who should we strive to please, God or man?