God doesn’t call covert Christians. Is your relationship with Christ hidden or perhaps non-existent? Do you think you have some special dispensation to hide your light?

Mat_5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Consider the following scriptures:

Gen 6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Rev 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Rev 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

Exo 25:23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Eze 43:13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

Eze 43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

Oh, but my dear brother, are you going to teach us what a cubit is? Ummmm… no. What I am wanting you to see is that we serve a PRECISE God who is PRECISE in all of His measuring and creation. Our God builds to plumb. Unlike us, he only measures once and cuts once. There is no “approximation” with Him and there is no approximates in how he instructed people to build things for Him.

He is precise in His time, His creating, His building, His pallet, His touch, His sight… always spot-on. To put this in perspective on the creation of His universe, if the earth’s orbit was 5% closer to the sun, we’d all be crispy critters. There is no approximation in the orbit.

When Jesus told those who listened to His teaching that He would be three days in the belly of the earth – that was a precise fact… not an educated guess. When God tells us that each hair on your head is numbered – that is a precise God. Jesus didn’t tell them, “oh, look for me somewhere around 6-ish between the 2nd and 4th days”.

Do you think that the God of this universe, when He tells you that He will never leave you or forsake you might take at least one day off from babysitting you? Do you think that God doesn’t know the exact amount in your checkbook right now? Do you think that God doesn’t know which moment of your life will be required of you?

He holds all things in His hands and if we are to take lessons from the creator, then shouldn’t we be a little more attentive in the things we build for Him… like our attitudes, our steps, our love? Why do we live in “approximations” when He has told us to be perfect?

But… HOW can we achieve that? With God all things are possible, but with men, they are impossible. Take for example – sin. Take it a step further… unrepented sin. Uncovered sin.

It WILL send you to Hell – but in this day and age of lukewarm preaching and people who have God revolve around THEIR schedules, surely God wasn’t really going to send anyone to hell. It is so dangerous to rewrite the Bible to fit your comfort zones.

I mean… if you live a pretty good life and you wear the title of “Christian” and your mom and dad go to church – that has to count for “good behavior” doesn’t it? I mean… really… God surely has a little leeway, doesn’t He?

His Son was given as a ransom for your sin. Not only do we continue to sin and expect to go to Heaven – but we pretty much have agreed with the new age teaching that God is a God of love and being a good person counts for something.

I mean… God is not so black and white on the issues, is He? The blood was shed and it turns sin either black or white. Remember God as the God of precision… as the God of His Word… and as the God who watched His only son stoop to humanity not to give a little blood for the neighborhood blood drive. He gave every drop. Now… one drop is sufficient to defeat every power of darkness, but He gave everything He had.

Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

(people get nervous when I speak about hell… but whether you are comfortable with it or not, it comes from the mouth of a VERY precise God.)

God is a precise God. He knows our every moment… our every sorrow and our every joy. He doesn’t have your sins on the “scales” of justice. Your good can NEVER outweigh the heaviness of ONE UNREPENTED SIN.

Most people today do not know just how precise He is… but there will come a day when there will be no question or misunderstanding in their minds. The biggest lie that the devil tells people is that they are “safe”. Because they are in a Christian home with Christian parents, golfing every Saturday with Christian friends, sitting in the front row of church on Sunday… These are all trappings. Externals… approximate externals.

God didn’t tell us that to be saved, we just needed to simply profess our Christianity – We need to LIVE our Christianity. In our schools, in our grocery stores, in our careers, out with the boys, shopping with the girls.

I can just hear someone standing before Him someday and saying… “I got saved… what else did you expect from me?”

A directive to tell the truth even though it may not win any Brownie points is essential.

My directive from my Heavenly Father is not to build a mega church or to take head counts of those I preach to. The directive to me for the community I reach out to… is to get His children safely home. Light the path so they can see to walk. Encourage and pick the one up who straggles and falls. Teach them about their inner compass and get them to dialogue with the Holy Spirit. Pray that they discern the voice of Jesus and the hand of their Heavenly Father. Help them discover and recover the buried treasure that was lost during the shipwreck of their last battle.

I’d heard it so strong in my spirit back in the ‘80’s during revival. “Don’t let them warm the pews when their neighbor’s heart is frozen. Don’t let them put a bumper sticker on their car without knowing who they are and who they serve. Concerning their life… Don’t let them “phone it in” – encourage them to participate. Refuse to be their crutch… challenge them to stand when they’ve done all to stand. And the bottom line… teach them how to pray… Once you can encourage them to step into my presence – I can take it from there.”

To whom much is given, much will be required. (Luke 12:48)

We can NOT approximate our walk with the Lord. We can not “almost” live for Him. We can not give Him a portion when He gave it all.

Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Really Lord? All my heart? All my soul? All my mind? All my strength?

How precisely do you think He wants us take that? Yeah… Lord… let me get back to you on that somewhere between Tuesday and next Friday.

Mat_7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.