BBD 09.16.14
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2002
09.16.14
Numbered
and Weighed
And they prayed and said, ‘You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show
which of these two You have chosen to take part in this ministry and
apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own
place.’ And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias. And he was
numbered with the eleven apostles. - Acts 1:24-26.
For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in
Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me
have an end. - Luke 22:37.
And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
This is the interpretation of each word. Mene: God has numbered your kingdom
and finished it; Tekel: You have been weighed in the balances, and found
wanting; Peres: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians. - Daniel 5:25-28.
We human beings are good at numbering and weighing
things. Ian Jewell with his eagle eye became suspicious that the toilet paper
rolls his company was buying were not as long as they ought to be. Ian began
counting the sheets in the rolls. Ah hah! There were only 200 sheets and
not the 320 that the supplier had claimed in the contract with the Western
England Council. Ian
says, “We immediately discovered the errors and
realized there was a large cost implication to the council which needed to be
recovered.” The council received $28,100 in compensation
for the 40,000 rolls it uses in a year which were an approximate 4,800,000
sheets short. Who would have thought anyone would cheat you on toilet paper!
Nearly everything in this world is numbered and weighed
in one form or another by human beings. Spiritually we shouldn’t be surprised
that we and our works are numbered and weighed by God. God knows everything
physically about us including the number of hairs we have or don’t have on our
heads. Spiritually He knows everything as well down to the smallest detail,
thought, motive and action. To number the people in the Book of Numbers meant to count the
people. Spiritually it means much the same. Matthias was to be numbered with
the Apostles meaning that if you were to count them you would count Matthias
with them. Judas, however, is to be counted with the “transgressors.” If it were possible for
us to count the transgressors, you would count Judas as being among them. God
not only counts, but He also weighs as Belshazzar found out (Daniel 5). Belshazzar was weighed by God and found
wanting and, as a result, his (Belshazzar’s) kingdom was finished and that very
night he was killed.
If God were to number you would you be numbered among
those who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior or would you be
numbered among the transgressors? If God were to weigh your life would He find
a full roll or would He find you wanting in many areas of your life? How long
before God finishes your life and my life? We do not know. But while we have
time let us commit the remainder of our lives to the Lord Jesus and make sure
that our lives are counting in the lives of those around us.
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