Proverbs 11:1?The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight.?

Proverbs 16:11?Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are of his making.

Proverbs 20:23?The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him.

You see, back in the day that these were written, the market place sold goods according to weight – much like a deli sells meat today – however – their scales weren’t digitized like ours – and they relied on a a balancing scale… like a see-saw – with a tray attached on either end. If you were to order a pound of wheat, they would put a one pound weight in one tray – and fill the other tray till the trays were equally balanced…

Unscrupulous merchants would cheat the buyer though, using false weights – so that if you ordered a pound, he might use a weight that actually weighed 7/8ths of a pound – thus cheating the consumer.

In a way we see this in todays products when we buy a jar of peanut butter that looks to be the same size we have purchaced for years only to discover its a few ounces short and instead of making the package visibly smaller they’ve put a concave divot in the bottom of the jar… or when you buy a bag of chips THIS BIG but its only half full – its true – some settling can occur during shipping – but half the bag?

Putting the world of retail sales aside for a moment though – there is a principal at play here that we ought not ignore… and that is the Lord despises the deception and hypocricy of the person using false weights… Now this is something here that I wish everyone would embrace – we have to apply this same principal when we are discerning any situation…

I recently had people in a comment section who were literally brawling with words… both were hateful and inflamatory towards each other. When I finally saw what was happening, I said they both should be ashamed of themselves – that their bickering was a disgrace to the Lord – and further more I confessed to be just as guilty of that myself – and said WE – as in all three parties – should be ashamed of ourselves… I was trying to use fair weights to resolve the conflict…

This, of course, didn’t work out the way I had hoped, as a yet another person got involved and his weights were completely in favor of one of the two individuals… it didn’t seem to matter how wrong the person he was defending was – and it escalated to a threat of him coming to break my nose… lol… how did that happen? dishonest scales…

And we see it all the time – especially in Christianity… people more than willing to overlook the transgressions of those they favor while they gouge at the souls of people they dislike. Its one of the reasons there is so much animosity between the denominations… its one of the reasons people see Christians as hypocrites…

We should really stop pretending to be elitists of this world – and humble ourselves to the fact that the very essence of Christianity should be that which people call ideal but unobtainable – and that is complete and total love in all situations through the power of the Holy Spirit… I have heard it from my best friends – hey bro – that sounds great – that sounds good – but life doesn’t doesn’t work that way – I say – it doesn’t work that way because we are refusing to let it work that way… we give partiality to those we favor which means we are being unfair to those we don’t favor… if we looked around with with honest scales and balances – if we treated each situation with honest scales and balances – it would go a long way in keeping us on His narrow path.

James 2:1-13
The Sin of Partiality
 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?
Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court? Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called? If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, “DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,” also said, “DO NOT COMMIT MURDER.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.