When I was a boy, I used to work as a messenger in a drug store in the city of Ottawa. There was a very fine pair of balance scales in that store that used to interest me very much. When medicine was to be weighed out, the druggist used to put a piece of paper on each side of the scales, then add a little copper weight to one side, and very carefully add the medicine on the other side, until the scales balanced perfectly.
Some years later, I visited a big building called the “Mint” where gold and silver are melted and made into coins. Here I saw Mt even more wonderful pair of balance scales. If you took two pieces of paper of exactly the same size, and placed them, one on each side of the balances, it would swing exactly level. But if you took one of those pieces of paper and wrote your name on it, and put it back on the scale, it would slowly weigh down that side. Yes, the addition of just one name would turn the scale.
Sometimes I think of that wonderful pair of scales, and I think of the words found in Daniel 5:2727TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. (Daniel 5:27), “Thou art weighed in the balance and art found wanting.”
Yes, God has watched you and me all our lives, and He knows all about us both. Our hearts and, lives have been stained with sin in the sight of God, and He tells us that we are “found wanting.” What shall we do about it? Can we somehow get rid of those sins and balance those scales before God? No we cannot. But there is a name, a very wonderful name, which God delights to honor. The precious, saving name of Jesus. Oh how thankful I am for the name of Jesus! It has meant pardon to my guilty heart. The blood of Jesus has met all my need, and now I know that all my sins are gone.
ML 04/09/1961