5’11” 3/4″ is my height. 185.4 lbs is my weight.
I am measurable.
God is not measurable.
The measure of your perspective often dictates the depth of your faith.
A dirt mound looks like a mountain to an ant, but to a human of any size it can easily be kicked over with minimal effort. A rock to an ant might be impossible to move, but the smallest child can toss it across the yard.
Man, trapped in a measurable form; man, made of muscle, sinew, blood & bone; man, formed from dust and clay is confined and limited by the very body he inhabits. Thus, there will be continual impossibilities in the life of every human.
You will face great adversity, great trial and impossible situations. These will come because you are powerless to affect many of them. But, these will also come so that God can show you His power over them.
Because, “nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).
God, who the Bible tells us unfathomable, immeasurable, and limitless (Job 11:7, Psalm 145:3, Ecc. 3:11, Isaiah 40:13) revealed Himself to mankind through Jesus Christ “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:13).
Humans measure against primary two things: standards and others. We teach immovable standards of measurement for scale, scope and size. Those are obvious and elementary. However, as humans with a tainted, sinful bent we are constantly measuring ourselves against others and others against our view of ourself. This is wrong.
It only leads to the sin of comparison. Comparison is really covetous measurement of yourself against another. In comparison we tend become our own judges. James writes, “…But who are you to judge your neighbor?” (4:12).
Remember, Jesus lived a perfect life. How do you measure against perfection? If we are honest with ourselves, we realize how far short we compare to Christ. Sadly, many of us are not honest with ourselves by excusing our own actions by measuring and magnifying the actions of anyone other than ourself.
Honest measurement is found in examining one’s life against Jesus. For in this measurement we will always fall short of perfection. This is good. It reminds us who life is really about. This is humbling. When we measure it must be against Jesus: the perfect other and the perfect standard.
Don’t fall into the trap of measuring against other flawed humans. It will kill your faith and limit your understanding of the unlimitless nature of God. Don’t erode your faith by stepping up to and sitting down upon the dais of judgment. Rather, view the mountains in your life of guilt, doubt, fear, and hopelessness with the understanding that,
“if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).
For to which ant did he ever call son or daughter?