Fair Scales

21 July 2011

Leviticus 19:36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Certain types of businesses provide certain characters, and when you deal with them it is so often that the character of the business becomes part of the character of the person you are dealing with. So when one deals with lawyers, they deal with law and legal interpretation, and not necessary justice. When you deal with used car salesman you are dealing with a person who has to make profit on the car they are selling and the car that they are buying. So they want to get a good car cheap and then sell it at top price making money out of both ends of the deal. In the same way one has to count everything, check everything, a 500ml bottle is not always filled to 500ml, a tin of food is  not always filled with the product to the amount on the can but filled with liquid to make up the volume. Dishonest people will always find ways to be more dishonest, no matter whether they wear a balaclava to cover their face or a business suit to hide their intentions.

The sad part about this is that very often good people are trapped into a business that forces them to act in an uncharacteristic way, and when they try to use honest scales and fair business practice they cannot survive in this corrupt system. It is extremely difficult to stay in business when ones competition is selling stolen goods, when scales are unbalanced, and the government that should check does not. Yet as Christians we can make a difference by speaking out and bringing people we can to be influenced to change by doing the right things in the right way, no matter what the cost.

Be encouraged today to use fair scales and right business practice, whether you are buying or selling.

David

Point to ponder: Be fair in all you do.

Question to consider:  Are your business actions justified before God?

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