One size fits all

     That's what clothes manufacturers want you to believe.  "Will it fit me?"  "Yes, of course, one size fits everyone."  So you order the item (or buy it as they don't have a fitting room) and when the item arrives you quickly assess that it won't fit your little sister much less you!  That's how it goes.  Now it costs more to return than to keep.  It becomes a gift for someone down the road that lies in your closet forgotten until you move 3 years later.  The same is true for "unisex" clothing.  Guess what?  I'm not shaped like a woman and few women are shaped like me.  I agree that I look well in pink but not that style. I'm missing certain physical features that women possess.  Our world has been moving in this direction for centuries.  Lose the individuality and merge with everyone else.  It's not only with clothing that we see this trend.  We see that same mentality moving across religious lines.  It's been going on since the fall and will continue until the judgement.  Anytime we try to change the design of God we find ourselves in the position of "inclusive" and "tolerant" thinking that wasn't intended and shouldn't be.
     The question was posed on Face Book the other day asking "Why are there so many different denominations?"  I could have passed on answering but that's against my nature.  So I explained that selfish men and women didn't want to believe a certain way and added to or subtracted from the design God put forth for the church.  When they did this they "took" liberty to decide that their way of believing and worshipping was better/superior to others setting them apart to found a new group or denomination.  That's why we have over 200 different Baptist beliefs within that denomination.  The addition of or subtraction from the Gospel is sin.  The book of Revelation tells us that anyone who subtracts from the Word will be erased from the Book of Life.  One size doesn't fit all.  Galatians tells us that anyone who adds to or subtracts from the Word will have added to them the curses contained in the Word.  Seeking to find a church that fits what you want is wrong.  Churches changing the Gospel to attract more people (and their money) are wrong.  Denominations that make okay something the Bible says is not okay are wrong. 
     The key here is learning that there is only ONE thing that fits all.  That would, of course, be the grace of God through Jesus.  HOWEVER, that grace is ONLY found in one name, the name of Jesus.  The conditions of obtaining that grace is acknowledging that we have been all about one size fitting all in our lives.  We've lived according to our interpretation of the Word and of the manipulation of the Word to OUR wants instead of living according the His wants.  We must have faith and believe that he is God of all of our lives in order to be saved.  It is a one size fits all if we choose to reject our life of sin and accept the grace of God.  He knows no age, size, race, sex when he looks at us.  He sees his creation in need of the love of the Father through the Son and continually allowing the residence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  One size fits all in the world of grace has no room for other beliefs, selfish interpretation that includes sin, and  blatant disobedience for the sake of selfishness.  I've been guilty of all.  God in his gracefulness has, upon my repentance, forgiven me.  He is the great "I am" declared through out history.  He will always be the great "I am".  There is no other God.  Period.