Weighed And Found Wanting

"Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found." Daniel 5:27

Nebuchadnezzar's son, Belshazzar was not the same kind of man as his father. Although he did not finish well, for a season Nebuchadnezzar had basked in the favor of God's blessing and then succumbed to his own pride and arrogance. Belshazzar was never humble, even though he knew his own father's plight. He worshiped gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood and stone. He drank wine with his concubines poured into the temple goblets.

Suddenly one day the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall...Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin. Nobody knew what it meant. Belshazzar was frightened by this and offered the 3rd highest office to anyone who could interpret the words. Daniel said he could keep his offer of gifts and position and he would tell the king what the mystery words meant (after he told him that his behavior and beliefs were way out of line) The full tranlation you can read in Daniel 6. Here is what TEKEL means.... "You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting." I just want to add 3 short thinking points and let you consider how this indictment would feel if spoken to you by God's prophet. 1)God's scales are totally and irrefutably accurate 2) weighed would infer measured and judged 3) wanting means 'came up short'.

Wow, when I considered being measured by perfect standards on an accurate scale and then to be found wanting... I was humbled. How would you measure up? Do you believe Almighty God has you weighed accurately? How short are you? These questions gave me pause for consideration and total appreciation for mercy and grace. What does the handwriting on the wall say about you? Ask God. I did.

Forgive me Lord, where I fall short.
Pastor Fred

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