What Is Your Weight?

Focus: Daniel 5:27 - KJV

27. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Job 31:5-6

God is no respecter of persons and He has a just balance that does not tilt wrongly but measures adequately, the weight of everyone and his deeds, before the Lord. As a rule, the Lord first scans and weighs the hearts of men on His balance to determine what density to ascribe per person. Incidentally, there is no camouflaging anything before the Lord to make it seem to be what it is not. He is the just Judge and His judgments are infallible. It is possible for the balance of human judges to tilt in the wrong manner. Such does not happen with God. He is bound to use the same scale to measure the weight of every man to consider those who are just and those who are found wanting.

Samuel got into the house of Jesse and was going to anoint Eliab who had been found wanting by God’s balance, just like He weighed king Belshazzar on the same balances and found him wanting. For Eliab, he was not just worthy of the throne and for Belshazzar, though he was already king, he was no longer found worthy of life, having been found wanting. Christ weighed Judas Iscariot on the same balance and found him wanting; rather than enjoin him to repent, he was urged on to consummate the evil he purposed to do. Nebuchadnezzar, before Belshazzar, was found wanting and was made to be a beast in the forest for seven years, even though he was a king and ruler.

The Lord is saying that we need to check ourselves no matter our sagacity, to ensure that we live right before Him. If anyone be weighed on the balances and found wanting, then will judgment come on the same suddenly and at times, without reprieve. It is important we begin to check ourselves on the preparatory balances to ensure we carry no unnecessary baggage that can cause us to be overweight. Where we find such burdens, there is need to shed weight right away, so as not to be found wanting in the end.

Please pray:

Father, I thank you for the grace to know you are just and will not judge us unkindly in any way. Let your kindness guide us to maintain the right weight in your kingdom, in Jesus’ name. By the help of your Spirit, please prune my excesses so that when the crucial day shall come, I will not be found wanting, in Jesus’ name. Let no power of hell push me into excessive baggage that will make me offend you in such a way that the balance will tilt against me, in Jesus’ name.

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