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Setting Your Spiritual Clock
Setting Your Spiritual Clock
Steve Klein
Several years ago it was reported that the telephone operator in a town in Cape Cod received a call every morning asking for the correct time. Finally, overcome with curiosity, she asked the inquirer, ''Would you mind telling me why you call about this time every day and ask for the correct time?'' ''Sure, I'll tell you,'' the man said. ''I want to get the exact time because I'm the man who blows the whistle at twelve o'clock.'' ''Well, that's funny,'' said the operator, ''because every day at the stroke of noon I set our clock by your whistle.''
How often do we set standards for ourselves based on what others are doing without considering what standard they are following? The examples of others are worthy of emulation ONLY IF those setting the examples are following the ONE TRUE standard or rule. This seems to be Paul's point in Philippians 3:16b-17 when he states, ''let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.'' To follow the example of others without being aware of what standard they themselves are following is the height of folly. The scriptures speak of those who, ''measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise'' (2 Corinthians 10:12).
