We use many kinds of scales today. There are the bathroom scales that we step on, muttering, “That’s too high. These scales must be wrong!”
There are the market scales that weigh our groceries: “It doesn’t look like five pounds to me. Those scales must be wrong.”
They may be. 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.” There is a scale that is right-absolutely, perfectly right. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Gen. 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))?
It is so simple to get that righteousness-to measure up to God’s standard: “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Rom. 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? “Thou shalt be saved.”
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” (Dan. 5:2727TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. (Daniel 5:27)).