Benchmarks…when I was in the workforce I spent the most of my working years in industry, in particular a power utility and then in the oil industry. Electrical maintenance was my field and high voltage testing in particular. And in these kind of things you have to have a standard to go by when testing equipment to gauge its performance by. We referred to it as a benchmark. It is very critical especially in testing high voltage equipment that it measure up to the benchmark. If it does not measure up and you put it in service the chances of failure are very great and safety and reliability are compromised to a great degree. Where does this fit in our lives…how does it apply to you and to me?
In maintaining high voltage equipment cleanliness is a huge factor as well as protecting it from harm. Regular maintenance at specified periods is a must. Tolerance of moving parts, etc. and adjustments when they are outside of the benchmark is critical to reliability. Our society as we know it is extremely dependent on proper operation of high voltage equipment at least in our part of the world. The maintaining of the benchmark is critical.
Back to the question how does this apply to my living? We as born again Christians have the greatest benchmark mankind has ever known but sadly most have never known. His name is Jesus. All other benchmarks fail in comparison to Him. The question is, how do we even hope to measure up to His standards? The answer is that we have to be overcomers. And how can you and I do that some may ask? Jesus said in Revelation3:21 “He that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.” Regularly coming to Him, seeking His face in prayer, worshipping Him …the Psalmist said “I will bless the LORD at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth” fellowship with His people…it says in Hebrews “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together and so much the more as you see the day approaching. THE DAY IS APPROACHING VERY QUICKLY. Let us not be sidetracked with the problems of this life. Maintain the benchmark. Keep your eyes on the prize which is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Never lose sight of our goal, we are too near to heaven to turn back. The old song says we ‘ve got too much to gain to lose. Be careful who you associate with, don’t be dragged down to a level lower than the benchmark. Do not allow anything to compromise the benchmark…the Standard. Lift up the standard of righteousness. Hebrews tells us, “be holy even as I (Jesus) am holy.”
In maintaining high voltage equipment cleanliness is a huge factor as well as protecting it from harm. Regular maintenance at specified periods is a must. Tolerance of moving parts, etc. and adjustments when they are outside of the benchmark is critical to reliability. Our society as we know it is extremely dependent on proper operation of high voltage equipment at least in our part of the world. The maintaining of the benchmark is critical.
Back to the question how does this apply to my living? We as born again Christians have the greatest benchmark mankind has ever known but sadly most have never known. His name is Jesus. All other benchmarks fail in comparison to Him. The question is, how do we even hope to measure up to His standards? The answer is that we have to be overcomers. And how can you and I do that some may ask? Jesus said in Revelation3:21 “He that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.” Regularly coming to Him, seeking His face in prayer, worshipping Him …the Psalmist said “I will bless the LORD at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth” fellowship with His people…it says in Hebrews “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together and so much the more as you see the day approaching. THE DAY IS APPROACHING VERY QUICKLY. Let us not be sidetracked with the problems of this life. Maintain the benchmark. Keep your eyes on the prize which is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Never lose sight of our goal, we are too near to heaven to turn back. The old song says we ‘ve got too much to gain to lose. Be careful who you associate with, don’t be dragged down to a level lower than the benchmark. Do not allow anything to compromise the benchmark…the Standard. Lift up the standard of righteousness. Hebrews tells us, “be holy even as I (Jesus) am holy.”
posted by Randall | 7:13 a.m.
3 Comments:
Thanks again for a good word - keeping our standards high. This is a topic which follows closely to that of grace. We who have experienced forgiveness of God sometimes can get careless about keeping to the standard of His Word and rely on His forgiveness to make things right. His forgiveness is there but we have to be careful not to fall into the hole of "cheap grace", I can do this and get away with it because I know He will forgive me later.
Thank you, Randall, for the reminder to keep the standard of our life high - just as in the electrical world, such a good analogy - not to let the standard of the electrical world or in our lives fall a little and then spend our energy later in cleaning up the disaster.
Hi again
Keeping our standards where they should be is something that we tend
to forget when we get to caught up
in the world. They do not see things as we do,and sometimes we can be influenced by their standards or the lack of standards.
God has given us the standards
that He wants us to follow.He makes
it clear in His word how we are to
behave.
He sat out the rules when He gave
the tablets to Moses.
We know what God wants from us,it is up to us to live it.
C.M.
We should all shoot for excellence but some of us will never hit the target but don’t ever stop trying. Remember
No matter how much we strive to be like JESUS it just isn’t
Going to happen but he wants us as close as we can. We will never make it on our own so ask him for help
Whenever you need.
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