Standards

Prices, ages, and even fish stories seem to change over time but the real issue is not the thing being measured, it’s the yardstick. Money has shrunk in value, not food; houses haven’t changed, but the standard we measure them by has. The same confusion infects moral and public life: when standards shift, everything looks distorted. Nothing can be judged rightly without a fixed, trustworthy measure. Scripture alone provides that unchanging yardstick when the standard is wrong, every conclusion will be wrong too.