It is amazing that the first thing that I don’t want to do every morning is jump on the scale, but man, I have to do it. I have one of those digital scales and it is not 100% on all the time, and so i take a best out of three kind of measuring. You know keepin’ it real.
One of the most annoying things is a scale that doesn’t tell the truth. When we get a scale that is a few pounds off it can mess up our whole day. This reminds me of when my mom and sister used to have one of those dial scales that you could adjust the center by turning a knob on the back to keep the scale more accurate. I would always make the scale 10 lbs heavier to see their reaction. Talk about a day wrecker right?! (Sorry mom and sis…)
See, a scale is a way to judge things. Our perspective of truth is like a spiritual scale. We can look to see if things being told to us are for real, or if they have an element of truth in them, or no truth at all.
Proverbs 20:23 says that “differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, and a false scale is not good.” It hit me this morning as I was meditating on this that we use a scale to weigh ourselves, and if we are measuring with a broken or inaccurate scale, then we don’t know the truth about our weight. In the same way, when our perspective of truth is skewed, our spiritual scale (a scale that is used to weigh truth) becomes broken or inaccurate, then we are seeing falsely.
If we don’t see ourselves as Jesus sees us then we are not seeing the truth. Because He is the only truth. If the “scale” of our mind does not agree with the Word (Jesus) then we will find that our perspective differs from God’s perspective, thus we have “differing weights.”
Here is a personal example: the whole son and daughter teaching that we are experiencing at Restoration Fellowship Church. Even as a pastor who is doing some teaching I am still having trouble wrapping my head around this whole spirit of adoption and that I am adopted. I am a son.
The scale that I have measured that on for my whole life has had a false weight on it. I have not seen the truth of what it means to be a son because the scale or “filter” that I have used to test this has been really, really off.
God is bringing me back to the truth and it is a process, and it seems like a long one.
So I invite you to join me in this examination, weighing of the scales, so to speak. Look at your current situations, see what it is that seems to be giving you the most trouble and see if maybe that could be a place of you having false weights. Then take it to God and let Him change your wrong areas of thinking so you can know how He really looks at you and what His will really is.
“…let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. THEN you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.” Romans 12:2b
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the sound on the podcast is not great, but I will try harder for next week.–Seth
