Comparing Standards by God or by Others

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.” AW Tozer

Likewise we should not measure ourselves to the stander of those around us but by God's standard and if we as the church measure to Christ's standard then we will also be “tuned” to one another.

Here are some words that a very wise friend shared with me once.

“I know it's hard to remember that we're measuring our lives by the world's standards, but we MUST remember that we can't live our life by one principle—obedience to Christ—and measure it by another—what others expect of us. If we are going to live to obey we MUST be satisfied with God's pleasure in our obedience no matter what others think.”

It isn't that we measure ourselves by another “piano” but we measure ourselves by the ultimate “tuning fork” the Lord Jesus Christ