One day Matt went to the barn. He got his father’s tools and some old boards and started to build a dog house. He measured, sawed and nailed. After a few hours’ work he had the dog house almost completed.
Soon he heard his father driving up to the barn on the tractor. “What are you building, Matt?” he asked climbing down.
“A house for Midnight,” answered Matt.
His father looked at the house carefully and said, “Well, it’s pretty good, but your boards aren’t very even.” He picked up a tool, called a square, and placed it on the corners of the house. Matt quickly saw that his work was not very good. None of the corners were square. Matt realized that if he had used the square when he was cutting and building, it would have been a straight and true house.
Many of us look back on our lives and think we have done “pretty good.” But if we would measure our lives by the Bible, the true square, we would see how crooked and out of line our lives are. As we build life’s “house” day by day, we should measure it by the Word of God. Then our lives will be true, straight, and beautiful.
ML-01/17/1982