It’s time to calibrate.
My darling husband Ron uses this word – I think it’s the engineer in him. Lately I've come to think that I need to look at my life and recalibrate.
To calibrate something means to adjust or check it against a known standard in order to ensure accuracy, correct any discrepancies, identify errors, and make adjustments. This is to make certain it correctly measures or performs the function for which it was designed..
I got to thinking about a couple of things in response to this
definition.
The first is a question - What am I checking my life against? The dictionary states it must be a known standard. So what is the only standard that a Christ follower should calibrate against? Only the WORD OF GOD fits there. God gave us His word as a mirror, a ruler, a standard by which we can measure the way we serve Him. We read -
Calibration
is used for a reason. That reason
is to make sure the item calibrated performs the function it was designed for.
So again, I
ask myself – “What is my life designed for?
What am I designed for?” I go
back to the “Known Standard” for this answer.
Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”
WE ARE CREATED
To do the good works that God has
prepared for us.
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