Sand Is Weighty

From: Messages of God's Love: 1974

Proverbs 27:3³A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. (Proverbs 27:3)

ONE TINY grain of sand is weighty? Why, you could not weigh anything so small! It takes millions and millions of grains to make a bag of sand. But a bag of sand can be too heavy to lift.

To us, it is only because of the great multitudes of grains that “sand is weighty".

We may think our sins too are too small to be weighed or counted, and so make light of them. But how “weighty” they are to God! And how many! He knows and weighs them every one.

Job said to God: “My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou sewest up mine iniquity.” Job 14:17¹⁷My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (Job 14:17).

What a comfort to those who trust in Jesus for their salvation to know that when He hung upon the cross, “the Lord... laid on Him the iniquity [sins] of us all"! (Isaiah 53:6⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6).)

“The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).

ML-03/17/1974

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