A brass scale has been in our family for many years. It is unusual, decorative, and often a conversation piece. Recently thoughts of this old scale caused me to "weigh" some new and healing ideas.
The familiar Scripture "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it"Eccl. 3:14. was in the Bible LessonIn the Christian Science Quarterly. for the week. Reading it this time, I was reminded of these antique scales. To get the two sides of the scale to balance, you have to add or take away weights from one side or the other. In this Scriptural teaching, however, nothing can be "put to" nor anything "taken from" that which God created. God's grand creation is already perfect. It's an eternal fact, a verifiable truth! Perfection can't be "more" or "less" than perfect, whole.
Well, then, how can we relate this perfect reality to a world so obviously in a state of imbalance and disorder? This questioning is itself a good place to begin to gain the possible solution. Perhaps the imbalance is inherent in our worldly premises and reasoning. The inequities of everyday living are all too evident around us. If God is left out of the picture, it's no wonder life may seem out of balance—a bit imperfect— something over which we feel we have no control.
