John Updike wrote about a...
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John Updike wrote about a carpenter working on a country house. The floors sagged. The
walls leaned. Yet the carpenter went to work with a plumb line and level. He made "a lot
of those long, irregular, oblique cuts with a ripsaw that break an amateur's heart." He left
a bookcase, kitchen counter, and cabinet that remained straight and level, although the
house itself was cockeyed.
As strangely mixed as our world is with the straight and the crooked, the level, and the out of plumb, God's standards are as certain as gravity. As surely as your shadow follows you and the mirror reflects your face, as predictably as winter precedes spring, just as certainly the plumb line shows true up and down. Although they might seem to break our heart with their perfection, as long we live on this globe absolute standards of justice and righteousness remain, and they also are set by almighty God.
As strangely mixed as our world is with the straight and the crooked, the level, and the out of plumb, God's standards are as certain as gravity. As surely as your shadow follows you and the mirror reflects your face, as predictably as winter precedes spring, just as certainly the plumb line shows true up and down. Although they might seem to break our heart with their perfection, as long we live on this globe absolute standards of justice and righteousness remain, and they also are set by almighty God.
