Measuring Up?

Materials
Obtain some flexible rulers or make them from cardboard. As an added variation, make a couple of the rulers with incorrect measurement markings.

Preparation
Make a list of measurements of various items found in the youth room or throughout the church.

Activity
Participants must scour the room and find the objects that match the measurements... first to get them all correct gets a prize.

Debrief
Have youth write the standards of measurement for our lives from God’s Word and scriptures we can use to measure our lives against God's standards. You might give them some helpful scriptures to write on their rulers. Talk about how those standards are corrupted when the rules (rulers) are wrong. Then everything gets measured incorrectly. Those that had rulers with the wrong measurements will find it difficult to find any of the objects.

Application
When our measurements of obedience, ourselves (pride), expectations (jealousy), comparisons with others, and timing (patience) are wrong it messes up our results. Our standards for measurement must be exact and based on God’s Word or every measurement we make will be wrong. God's Word is to be the ruler for our life. When we use other things as rulers our measurements come out wrong.

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