Most boys and girls like to step on the scales to see how much they weigh. Brent liked to do this, and he always wanted to weigh more than anyone else! One time, trying to be the heaviest, he puffed up his cheeks full of air. One of his friends said, “Brent, you can only weigh what you are. Puffing up your cheeks won’t make you weigh more!”
This is true of each one of us in God’s sight; we can only “weigh what we are.” Unless we have our hearts washed clean of our sins in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are only sinners in God’s sight and on our way to eternal punishment.
In Daniel 5:27 we are told of a king who was “weighed in the balances, and . . . found wanting.” This means that when he stepped on “God’s scale” he did not “weigh enough.” God could see that his heart had not been washed clean of its sins, so he was not ready to go to heaven when he died. And he died that very night!
How terrible it will be when the Lord Jesus comes, if you do not “weigh enough” - if your heart has not been washed clean of its sins. Why not let Him wash away your sins right now?
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalm 51:7). “Jesus Christ, who . . . loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Revelation 1:5).
ML-11/10/1996