When you think about the word Straighten, you can use it in so many different ways. "Stand straight up, shoulders back," my mother always used to say. "Did you straighten up the table when we got done eating, you know you need to do that!" My teacher used to say - "You people straighten up, right now!"
In our small group the other morning I heard from the New Living Testament a different way to understand God's Word is our daily living guide.
II Timothy 3: 16 and 17.
NLT "All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right. It is God's way of preparing us in every way, fully equipped for every good thing God wants us to do."
I am not sure why that stuck out to me - straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right. After all, God is preparing us completely, equipping us completely to do what He wants. Do you see how big that really is. We should be awed by the fact that He loves us so much He wants us to see that our perspective is not quite right sometimes. We get an idea about something and it isn't always right. So, of course, what is our job. Our commitment? To be in His Word and know it, so that we don't miss the mark and need straightening up very often.
I never did like being called into the principal's office. It was humiliating and awful.
What do you need to have God straighten out for you?
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