Isaiah 28:17 “I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason’s level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge and hope of lies. And waters will flood over the secret [hiding] place.
Measuring things has always been important. Through the years, there have been various standards of measure. There has to be a standard by which to measure. It does not matter if it is measuring volume, temperature, speed, distance, weight, etc…. Standards allow us to measure, compare, and know with accuracy that which is being determined. We also use standards by which to establish a society and cultural rules, morals, and laws. In measuring there are international standards that are published and used to keep international accuracy.
Take the Kilogram, As originally defined, the kilogram was represented in the late 18th century by a solid cylinder of platinum. Measurements of the mass of a volume of water proved to be imprecise and inconvenient to make, however, and the platinum artifact itself became the standard. It was superseded in 1889 by a standard kilogram, also a solid cylinder, of height equal to its diameter, made of the same platinum-iridium alloy as the bar then in use as the standard for defining the metre. The standard kilogram was kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures laboratory at Sèvres, France. However, in 1989 it was discovered that the prototype kept at Sèvres was 50 micrograms lighter than other copies of the standard kilogram. To avoid the problem of having the kilogram defined by an object with a changing mass, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) agreed in 2011 to a proposal to begin to redefine the kilogram not by a physical artifact but by a fundamental physical constant. The constant chosen was Planck’s constant, which was to be defined as equal to 6.62607015 × 10−34 joule second. One joule is equal to one kilogram times meter squared per second squared. Since the second and the meter were already defined in terms of the frequency of a spectral line of cesium and the speed of light, respectively, the kilogram would then be determined by accurate measurements of Planck’s constant. The proposal was accepted at the 2018 CGPM and, effective from May 20, 2019, the kilogram would be defined by Planck’s constant. To scientists and physicists, this makes sense but to the rest of us, it is words on a page that has no practical application for us other than to know there is a standard and when used there is accuracy and application for everyone to use across the globe.
There are standards that are defined in the bible too. They have accuracy and application for everyone to use across the globe but each of them has one more aspect that has eternity woven into it. There is one God. Standard. God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Standard. God is the Creator of all there is. Standard. God is holy, righteous, and absolutely just and true. Standard. God, the creator of all there is, made Himself known to man. Man sinned by disobedience and fall short of God’s expectation and is separated from God. Standard. God searches the hearts and tests the mind of everyone. Standard. God weighs the motives and intents of man. Standard. None have done good, no not one. Standard. God so loved the world that He sent His only Son so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Standard. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to God but through Him. Standard. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned. Standard. Whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. Standard. Everyone will face the judgment seat of Christ. Standard. The results of these standards will determine eternal heaven or hell.
It is when we mess with standards that we get into trouble. We dilute the absolute standard into something that it is not. Sometimes we apply our standards to make it easier for us to meet God’s standards. In essence, we change God’s holy, righteous, true, and perfect standards to somehow make us right before Him in our own eyes, in our own minds, in our own effort. God does not change. His standards do not change. Everything thing He has made known has not, will not, and does not change no matter what we think, say, or do.
People say there is no God. False standard. People will say there is more than one way to eternal heaven. False standard. People will try to earn their way to eternal life. False standard. People will try to perform their way to eternal life. False standard. People will pick and choose what they believe out of God’s Word. False standard. People will deny Jesus Christ was the Son of God. False standard. People do not believe there is a heaven or hell. False standard. People don’t believe in eternity. False standard. People don’t believe there will be a final judgment. False standard. All of these man-made standards fall short.
Why is it so easy to believe man-made absolute standards and not those of God, the Creator of all there is???