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JUSTLY

Prov 20:23

23 The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him.

NIV

This is almost the exact same as verse 10 which we just saw. Although it was differing weights and measures and here is to the differing weights and dishonest scales. Slightly different but with the same meaning. So what else can we find in this that we did not find in the other? It seems the whole of the matter for God is that we are honest in all we do. That would imply specifically in business, but it could also be applied to our relationships. This could be seen as being one person when we are with some certain people, then being another person when we are with other people. In proverb ten we applied this to how we measure others spirituality and ours. Here we are getting the sense we might measure ourselves differently depending on our environment. Do we ever present ourselves dishonestly, weighed with a different measure depending on who we are with? We should be weighed both by the community of believers and the community of non-believers by the same measure. That measure is Christ of course. We cannot use one set of rules, or weight, for when we are in church and then use a different set of rules, or weight, when we are at work. An honest scale weighs justly, and that is how we should weigh our lives. If we are on the one side of the scale and Christ is on the other side, does the scale balance equal? Jesus is the only weight or measure we should be weighed against all the time.