Standard of Measurement

False Standard of Measurement
A little boy came running to his mother, shouting, “Mother, I am nine feet tall.”
His mother responded, “Don’t talk such nonsense.”
“But,” he said, “I really am nine feet tall. I measured myself.”
“Well, how did you measure yourself?” asked his mother.
“I took off my shoe and measured myself with that. It is the same size as my foot, and I am really nine feet.”
With a smile the mother replied: “Now I understand, but I have to tell you that your measure was not the right one. We do not measure ourselves by the size of our own feet, but we must use a 12-inch ruler.”
Paul reminds us that, “Those who measure themselves by themselves ... are without understanding.”