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Weighing in for Heaven, May 13
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine
integrity.
Job 31:6
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True measure is everything. It is the very law of God. He puts His law
into the least of men’s acts and dealings, that learning and living it they
may be elevated, ennobled, and sanctified in heart and affection—faithful
in the least.
God weighs motives, purposes, character. All men are weighed in the
balances of the sanctuary, and God would have all realize this fact. Hannah
said, “The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.”
1 Samuel 2:3
. David hath said, “Men of low degree are vanity, and men of
high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter
than vanity.”
Psalm 62:9
. Isaiah says: “Thou, most upright, dost weigh
the path of the just.”
Isaiah 26:7
....
The God of heaven is true. There is not a motive in the depths of
the heart, not a secret within us, not a design that God does not fully
comprehend. But what is the standard of justice? God’s law. God’s law is
placed in one scale, His holy immutable law whose claims are specified,
taking, in the first four commandments, supreme love to God, and in the
last six, love to our neighbor. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, ... and thy neighbour as thyself.”
Luke 10:27
. From this
standard we will not subtract one atom. God requires all the heart, mind,
soul, and strength, and “love thy neighbour as thyself.” This is placed in
one scale, while every individual character has to pass the weighing test
by being placed in the opposite scale. And by its just comparison every
man’s doom is irretrievably fixed....
Shall there be written, “Weighed in the balance, and found wanting”?
If found wanting in the day of God it will be a terrible thing, therefore we
want to be closely examining our own motives and actions by the holy
law of God, to repent of every act of transgression, and as sinners lay hold
of the merits of Christ to supply the deficiency. The blood of Christ alone
will do this.
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