King David swept all of humanity, from low estate to high, into the same category. To be \u201cweighed in the balances\u201d literally means “the scales go up.” His point was that we are all sinners, from the most common poor person to the one most highly esteemed by humanity, from the best known sports hero, Hollywood star, or political king-pin to the least known uneducated, backwoods hermit: “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). Notice that David was not comparing poor men and rich men against each other. He was comparing all men against God Almighty. You cannot compare a group of grade-school dropouts to a group of post grad intelligentsia, and say that one violates the law of God more than the other. The rich man and the poor man, the educated and the uneducated, all run neck and neck for worst sinner. Every person, regardless of social status, is an unreliable object of trust. The idea here is that we cannot depend on people; our hope and trust must be in God alone.<\/p>\n
There is a humorous story of a pastor who was frustrated by a man who always seemed to fall asleep during his messages. The pastor devised a trick to embarrass the man in order to get him to break this habit. Near the end of a message concerning hell, the pastor, in a normal voice, said to the congregation, “Any one here today who wants to go to hell,” then he raised his voice to a much louder volume and said, “PLEASE STAND UP!” Of course this woke the sleeping man, who quickly jumped to his feet. After collecting himself, he looked at the pastor and said, “Pastor, I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m standing, but it seems that you and I are in the same boat.” His statement was completely correct because the truth is we\u2019re all in the same boat; we “all have sinned.”<\/p>\n
“LORD, we have found this to be true, You are our only reliable refuge and salvation. Use us this day to bring others to You we ask in Jesus’ name.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psalms 62 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup> Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh <\/em>my salvation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2<\/sup> He only is <\/em>my rock and my salvation; he is <\/em>my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3<\/sup> How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as <\/em>a tottering fence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4<\/sup> They only consult to cast him <\/em>down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 5<\/sup> My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is <\/em>from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6<\/sup> He only is <\/em>my rock and my salvation: he is <\/em>my defence; I shall not be moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7<\/sup> In God is <\/em>my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and <\/em>my refuge, is <\/em>in God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8<\/sup> Trust in him at all times; ye <\/em>people, pour out your heart before him: God is<\/em>a refuge for us. Selah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9<\/sup> Surely men of low degree are <\/em>vanity, and <\/em>men of high degree are <\/em>a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are <\/em>altogether lighter <\/em>than vanity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 10<\/sup> Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them <\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11<\/sup> God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth <\/em>unto God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 12<\/sup> Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth <\/em>mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King David swept all of humanity, from low estate to high, into the same category. To be \u201cweighed in the balances\u201d literally means “the scales go up.” His point was that we are all sinners, from the most common poor person to the one most highly esteemed by humanity, from the best known sports hero, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}