Honest Weights
There is a story that came out of the great depression about a farmer who made a trade deal. This was very common in those days. The farmer had butter the butcher needed and the butcher had bacon the farmer wanted. The deal? Five pounds of each once a week.
One day the farmer returned from town with his bacon and thought it looked different from the other times. So he put it on the scale and could see that he was correct. The bacon weighed out at four pounds, not five as agreed.
He stormed back to town to confront the butcher. After expressing his outrage, the butcher explained the shortage. It seems the morning before the farmer came to town, the butcher had lost his five pound weight so he used the butter as the counter-weight.
Jesus said to be careful how we measure because that measurement will come back hurt you. "With the measure you measure will be measured back to you."
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