Weighed in the balances.

Daniel 5:27 

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

Some of you are hurting. Your earthly prospects grow dark, and it is midnight. Your business is failing. You have sickness in the house. Your darling wife languishes before your weeping eyes. Your children, by their ingratitude, have wounded your spirit.

 You are a believer, and you know that God is testing and trying you. God wants you to know that God is testing and trying you. God wants you to see if your faith can stand the test of trial and trouble. Remember Job?  What a scale he was weighed on!  What weighs of affliction were cast on him! He was a mountain of sore trouble, and yet he could bear them all. He came out of the scales as proof against all the weight that satanic strength could hurl.

It is this way with you? Can you say, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21)? Can you submit to His will without murmuring? Can you still say, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15)? Remember, if your religion will not stand in adversity, it will not give comfort in the storm. You would be better without it; for with it, adversity deceives you. Without it, you might discover your true condition and seek the Lord as a penitent sinner. If a little adversity breaks you, what will happen when all God’s storms are let loose on your soul? If mere trials distress and grieve, what will you do when all the hurricanes of divine vengeance sweep across the earth and shake its pillars?

Dear friend, I want you to see how you handle your trials and troubles. Does your faith stand? Can you see God’s right hand even when it is wrapped in clouds? Can you discover the silver lining of tribulation’s back clouds? God help you to come out of the scales, for many are weighed in them and found wanting (Dan. 5:27).