Tolerance and Allowance

In the industrial world of machinery, tolerance is an important consideration. By definition, tolerance is the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object. In other words, if you had a metal shaft that you wanted to get in a hole, the outside diameter of the shaft would need to be smaller than the inside diameter of the hole. The difference between the shaft’s diameter and the hole’s diameter is the allowance. The tolerance on the other hand is the additional room that is available beyond the allowance to force the shaft into the hole. In other words, the hole can be forced to become larger.

There are certain actions that God will allow from us if we want to make it into heaven. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to force ourselves into heaven beyond the set allowance.

John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.