Our society places great emphasis on how well each person is doing. It makes us judgmental and competitive. As children we may have thought that our real value was measured by the grades we got in school or the scores of our soccer games or baseball games. As grown-ups we continue measuring our worth by things like the size of our wages, the model of the car we drive.
We can't stop the measuring, but we are in a faith that helps us step outside this system. We seek to know and do the will of our Lord and Savior, which is beyond the limitations of such measurements. Submitting our own will to our Lord releases us from the competition and the judgments in these games of measurement. Our loyalties are to values like honesty, respect, peace, and wholeness. Today, let us remember that our value isn't measured on a human-made scale.
