A QUALITY LIFE…There is a weak spot in many peoples thinking. They are mistaking quantity for quality. In other words, they are rushing after as much of life as they can grab. They squeeze their schedules to the bursting point to add more hobbies, sports camps, vacation sites, and don’t forget the new run of theater stage shows. For them, life is good when they get ‘more’. Without realizing it they become “a mile wide but only an inch deep”…as a person. They have quantity…they don’t have quality in their life. There is a scriptural call to know what makes for quality. Here’s an interesting way to view it…
“Jeremiah, I have made you a tester of metals, that you may determine the quality of my people”. ~Jer. 6:27
I guess in some way, every spiritual leader is a tester of the quality of God’s people. But what I wanted you to notice is how important quality and depth is to God. There’s an old saying, ‘what gets measured gets done’. God knows that human nature gets sloppy on the soul-deep issues. For that reason He has put people in each of our lives that in some way measure our depth and mirror it back to us. Sometimes we avoid these measurements…probably like we avoid stepping on the scales after the holidays…but these measurements remain all the same. In later verses, we see that many people in Jeremiah’s day had drifted away from soul-deep-ness. They had rationalized abandoning orphans & widows…their worship of God had slipped to second place in favor of many other things…and their quality of life was degenerating before their very eyes. There is a timeless lesson here for all of us. QUALITY OF LIFE FLOWS FROM QUALITY OF SOUL! There is a subtle divine pressure to stop rushing after another activity that we think is a ‘must’. There is a soft divine voice calling us to look inward…to test our metal…to mirror Christ and His ways…to deepen our soul…to find the real ‘quality life’. ~Verlon
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Quantity and Quality "It's Like"
ReplyDeleteIf I was to take a perfect creation of art, such as the Mona Lisa, and cut it up into 20,000 pieces. Then reproduce only one piece perfectly...I could say that single piece contained all the elements of perfection of the original piece, and as of the original .. However, I would have to re-assimilate and reproduce the missing quantity of 19,999, also perfectly, to get the picture as a whole to even come close to the original-whole ...Even then having to accept that no reproduction is ever as great as the original....This could be even more complicated if some pieces were reproduced badly , they were are all mixed up, adding to this task, not having the original to compare with anymore, and you in truth having never seen it yourself. Though you do have complete faith, a book, and that it works is not misplaced....Your right though. I would rather one piece well than many badly if that is all I could do...Maybe you would have to get many working on one piece each together???