{"id":19509,"date":"2022-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/?p=19509"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T04:18:02","slug":"put-away-the-measuring-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/twft\/put-away-the-measuring-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Away The Measuring Stick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you.\u2019 Proverbs\u00a03:3\u00a0ESV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the Passover meal, the disciples forgot to wash Jesus\u2019 feet. <i>Bad performance! <\/i> After Jesus explained the bread and wine symbolised His upcoming crucifixion, they started arguing who would be the greatest in the Kingdom. <i>Bad performance!<\/i> Within hours they\u2019d fallen asleep on Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. <i>Bad performance! <\/i> And He knew Peter would deny him. <i>Bad performance!<\/i> So how did Jesus grade them? He didn\u2019t! Jesus doesn\u2019t grade people. And you don\u2019t have to either.  <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find wonderful rest in your soul once you stop grading people, and instead start loving them from where they are to where they need to be. Rather than rebuking the disciples, Jesus compliments, rewards, promotes, and puts them on Heaven\u2019s roll of honour. Even after they failed to wash His feet He still desired to eat Passover with them (see\u00a0Luke\u00a022:15). Nourished by their love, He said, <i>\u2018You are those who have stood by Me in My trials. And I confer on you a Kingdom\u2026 you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and sit on thrones.\u2019<\/i> (Luke\u00a022:28\u201330\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n<p> On His most agonising night He passed out gifts, and gave His very young disciples more than He ever gave anybody in terms of honour and glory. In His eyes they were <i>all<\/i> great. He didn\u2019t grade them on their performance, but on their love that motivated them to forsake all and stick with Him through thick and thin. <\/p>\n<p> Reimar Schultze says, \u2018Don\u2019t set up standards for yourself. That can kill you. As Jesus loved His disciples <i>then,<\/i> so He loves them <i>now.<\/i> So stop fussing and nit-picking at yourself and others!\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/soulfood\/todays-readings-10Sep2022\/\">SoulFood<\/a>: Ezek 43\u201345, Luke 21:12\u201324, Ps 78:32\u201339, Pr 20:20\u201321<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\">The Word for Today<\/em><span style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\"> is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright \u00a9<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you.\u2019 Proverbs\u00a03:3\u00a0ESV Before the Passover meal, the disciples forgot to wash Jesus\u2019 feet. Bad performance! After Jesus explained the bread and wine symbolised His upcoming crucifixion, they started arguing who would be the greatest in the Kingdom. Bad performance! Within hours they\u2019d fallen asleep on Jesus in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}