The Scales

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We use many kinds of scales today. The bathroom scales that we step on, muttering, "That's too high! These scales must be wrong!"
The market scales that weigh our groceries: "It doesn't look like five pounds to me. Those scales must be wrong!"
Maybe they are. Whatever man makes, even in this day of technical and electronic marvels, has some margin for error, some possibility of "fudging" just a little bit. But "a just weight and balance are the Lord's." Proverbs 16:1111A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work. (Proverbs 16:11). There is a scale that is right—absolutely, perfectly right. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Genesis 18:2525That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Genesis 18:25).
How will you "weigh up" in those scales? Will you prove to be, when "laid in the balance... altogether lighter than vanity?"
It doesn't matter how good you may seem to be, how moral and upright your life appears to your neighbors. You may be the most respected person in your community, but the Bible says that "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23).
All have sinned—all have come short—all have been weighed—all are found wanting. What can be done? What answer is there to the old, old question, "How should man be just with God?" Job 9:22I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? (Job 9:2).
There is only one way. We must have "the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe." Romans 3:2222Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: (Romans 3:22).
It is so simple to get that righteousness, to measure up to God's standard: "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:1010For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:10).
Confess—what?
Believe—what?
"Confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus... Believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead."
What must follow?
Do it now. Believe now. Confess now. Don't wait for that terrible day when God will have to say to you: "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting." Daniel 5:2727TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. (Daniel 5:27).