In 1993 we moved to our present house in Ringgold, Georgia and we brought a piece of door casing with us. When we moved from our trailer into our first home in 1978, we started measuring our children’s height on their birthday and marking it beside the laundry room door. We moved to four different rental houses before landing in Ringgold. But we always took that piece of door casing with us, wherever we moved. I still have the casing on the inside of our basement door. A great memento for children and grandchildren. They still like to stand with their backs to the door and measure how tall they are. And they are always excited when they are taller than Marmie (although she is only 5’ 2” tall). But when it comes to what God expects from us, none of us measure up to God’s standard. Paul said in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Some measure taller, some measure shorter, but we all fall short of God’s expectations of perfectness. So, what can we do? We are hopeless in our dilemma. But Jesus stepped in and gave us the help that we needed. Jesus, the perfect Son of God can give us the perfection that we lack. He stands tall and measures up for us. If we but trust in Jesus, His perfection is accounted to us, and our sin is accounted to Jesus and paid for on the cross of Calvary. Praise the Lord! In Jesus, we can “measure up”.
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