The Standard

I was making my long trek back home after a visit with my family. I was attempting to do the speed limit and not speed. That was a very challenging task, not that I am a crazy driver but I typically do the 5-10 mph over. At times I would be driving and a few people would pass me and I wouldn't pay much attention. There were other times though that it seemed everyone had passed me and I began to question if I had missed a speed limit sign with a higher limit. I began judging the speed of the cars around me as an accurate reflection of the speed I should be going. At that point I began to anxiously look for a speed limit sign. Of course if would take forever for one to appear, but the funny thing was that when they did appear, I was doing the correct speed. This happened a couple of times and the Lord spoke to my heart about something. You see in life I have recently felt like I am living in two totally different worlds. This is a hard thing to do. I have my world that is all about teaching, politics of education,politics in general, societies definition of tolerance, and a very skewed sense of right and wrong. When I am in this world it is easy for me to just keep doing life as if everything is fine and it is going to continue like this forever. I fall into this trap of allowing myself to blend into this thinking and it is easy, for it is all around me. Then reality hits when I am around other believers who are reading the signs of the times according to scripture and trying to prepare for the judgment that we have brought on ourselves. Here where the heartbeat is crying out for mercy, in repentance for the sins of abortion, human trafficking, self centeredness, and so much more. Here where there is a sense of urgency for time is short to prepare and to reach people. Here where the true reality is so very present. In the midst of this world I remember what my standard is to know if I am "doing the right speed", the Word of God. I have to stop allowing the world that is spinning around me, flying by me, and having a party make me think or feel what I am doing is wrong or crazy and just remember my source and guide is never wrong and never changes.