Don't Lower the Goal
IllustrationTestimonyStory★★★★MY SON came to me one day and asked me to accompany him to the gym. He told me that he wanted to show me something. He was about eleven years old and barely five feet tall. He wanted to show me that he could dunk!
I had to see this! I took him over to the gym and he bounced the ball, approached the goal, and cupped the ball under his hand in preparation. My eleven-year-old son, not even barely five feet tall, went up and dunked the basketball. It was an amazing sight … until I realized how he did it.
Before we went over to the gym, he called and asked the maintenance man to lower the goal. The standard had been lowered. I had the guy to raise the standard back to its correct height. I explained to my son that the goal should not be lowered so that he could meet it, but that he should continue to work hard to rise to the standard.
Sometimes, we lower the standard and then get all excited because we meet it and think we’ve done something. God is after us meeting His standard.
He wants us to rise from wherever we are and rise to His level of excellence.
The point
God's standards should not be lowered to accommodate our weakness; instead, we must strive to rise to His excellence.