Today there is much talk of conformity in school, on the college campus, in business, in society. This is a great challenge to all of us, a challenge to find the true standard of conformity for every phase of our lives—a standard that will bring real joy, satisfaction, peace, and dominion.
Beyond question Christ Jesus was the most consistent conformist the world has ever known. And yet, by the standards of his time, and many of our present-day standards, he must be regarded as a persistent nonconformist.
To what did the Master conform? We know little of his boyhood except his own admission at the age of twelve that he was about his Father's business. But in his three-year ministry he healed the sick and deformed; raised the dead and the dying; reformed the sinner; stilled the tempest; transported a ship immediately to shore; fed five thousand people with only five loaves and two fishes—all in defiance of material laws, and to the dismay and fury of his opponents.
