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Thermostats and Theology
By Andy on 16 January 2003 the wee hoursCategory: Personal Today, tonight, and tomorrow are supposed to be the coldest days in the DFW Metroplex thus far this winter.
I have two devices around my house that tell me the temperature, but both are very different. One simply reads the temperature, but the other regulates it. One only announces the temperature, while the other adjusts it. One is the thermometer, and the other is the thermostat. The thermometer fluctuates on a moment-by-moment basis depending on surrounding circumstances. It's usually unpredictable. It's up one day and down the next. Yet, the thermostat remains consistent. It's never moved by its surrounding climate.
In the ever-changing, ever-turbulent circumstances of life, mypersonal attitude should resemble the thermostat more than the thermometer. No matter what the temperature reads outside, whether times are good or times are bad, myinternal temperature should be determined by the constant, unchanging characteristics about me that God has declared to be true. That is, as a Believer I am full of worth, dignity, and Godly wisdom. There is no situation too overwhelming. Christ is in me, and He is the Rock that never changes. Do you know what that means? He is my thermostat.
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