Someone posted a graphic on Facebook that I shared at worship last month.
The top showed three people huddled together in heavy winter clothes, looking miserable, captioned “50° in San Diego”. The bottom showed three people in shorts and light tops having a picnic, captioned “50° in Wisconsin”.
Having grown up in Wisconsin and having visited San Diego, I can attest to the only somewhat exaggerated truth in that graphic.
We get used to things in our environment. They become our normal, our “tradition”. We like them because we just do, and we are unable to think critically about them.
We need a standard outside ourselves to know what it real, what is true.
Jesus is that standard. “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’.” John 14:6
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