Proverbs Chapter 11
I didn’t even get past the 1st verse before God spoke this morning. Some days you dig a while, whereas others tend to just show up.
(Pro 11:1) A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. We have all seen the balance scales, where weight is place on one side and weight on the other side to see which is heavier. This is the school yard teeter-totter effect. In Bible days they would place a certain weight on one side of the scale. They would predetermine the weight of that idem, hypothetically let’s say 5 pounds. Then a customer would come in to sell their barley grain, by placing it on the other side of the scales. If the 5 pound weight rose up, then they had more than 5 pounds of grain. (This is deep isn’t it?) So store owner would shave weight off his 5 pound stone to weigh less than, in order to pay less for the grain. This was known as a false balance.
We weigh things in life by different degrees and standards. If our kids get in trouble we say things like “well they are good kids, they just made a mistake”. But if we see another kid do the same thing we have tendency to say things like “that kid is no good, I knew they were nothing but trouble.” Have you ever made a comment like “if that was my kid, I would…” Yet when we are in the same situation we never judge on the same scale.
This is not just in our kids, but at work, friendships, our church, and politics. We grade on a curve, based on our personal interest to the situation. GOD FORBID!