Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.
Daniel 5:27
"IT is well frequently to weigh ourselves in the scale of God's Word. Q: Do I take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord?
Then turn to the life of Christ -- ask yourselves how far you are conformed to His likeness.
Endeavour to discover whether you have the meekness, the humility, the lovely spirit which He constantly inculcated and displayed.
Take, then, the epistles, and see whether you can go with the apostle in what he said of his experience. Have you ever cried out as he did—"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death"?
Q: Have you ever felt his self-abasement?
Q: Have you seemed to yourself the chief of sinners, and less than the least of all saints?
If we thus read God's Word as a test of our spiritual condition, we
shall have good reason to stop many a time and say, "Lord,-- give me warmer zeal; inflame me with more fervent love; Let me no longer be 'found wanting,' when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, lest I be found wanting in the scales of judgment." "
*Judge yourselves that ye be not judged."
Charles Spurgeon
