The Plumbline

Lord, your teaching will always be there. You keep it safe in heaven. You continue to show that people can trust you, from one century to the next. You have fixed the earth in its place, and it will remain. I will never forget your rules, because you have used them to give me life. (Psalm 119:89-90, 93) We aren't going to find anything else that endures as well as God's truth - it is enduring, trustworthy, and without a doubt, the most reliable teaching we will ever receive. What we do with it might not be as reliable, though! We can accept it, reject it, or do a half-hearted commitment to it. There will always be some who will outright reject the validity of God's Word, while others will empathically state it truth without really allowing it to embrace them, changing the way they 'operate' in their daily lives. God's hope is that we will both delight in his Word AND allow it to change the way we live. Why? He knows as long as we rely upon human wisdom above ...

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein What specifically would you like to learn today? I imagine some will quickly report their desire to learn how to make their money work well for them so their future income is well-established. Others will quip they need to learn how to save in the first place! If we are honest here, there are great deal of things we'd desire to learn, but take very little time or invest very little effort into learning. I would have loved to learn to play the piano, but I never learned a note on those ivory keys. It wasn't for the lack of seeing pianos - there were lots in my immediate associations who had them. It wasn't for the lack of affording lessons - I could have even trades my services cleaning a yard or washing windows if that was considered a fair trade. What I lacked was the 'want to' behind the desire. Sometimes we have a lot more desire than 'w...