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 16:11. There is a scale that is right—absolutely, perfectly right. "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 3:23.
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 9:2.
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 3:22.
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 10:10.
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?
"Thou shalt be saved." Romans 10:9.
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 5:27.
"For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him." 2 Chron. 16:9