Wanting someone else to be what you are not willing to be is an injustice; expecting someone to do something for you that you are not willing to do for others is an injustice; criticizing someone else for an attitude or behavior that you yourself display is an injustice. We are long over due as the body of Christ to take the plank out of our own eye, so we can see clearly the speck in someone else’s eye (Matthew 7:3-5).

Today is the first day of a new month on the Gregorian calendar and it is the eleventh day of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. As I wrote these numbers down to start my day of reading, praying, journaling, the Lord said, “Today is a 111 day.” This prompted me to do some random reading of 11:1 passages.

I began in Deuteronomy 11:1 and learned about the four different words charge, statue, ordinance and commandment, for they are not synonymous. Then I went to Isaiah 11:1 and looked into the words shoot, spring, stem, branch, roots, and fruits. I paused at Psalm 11:1 and noticed the difference between refuge and fleeing. But I could not get past Proverbs 11:1 as I studied false balance, just weight, abomination and delight.

What I learned is that this is not only about business ethics, but it is about relational integrity and the nature of God. A false balance is premeditated manipulation, it can mean being two-faced; inconsistent; deceptive; or self-serving. God calls it an abomination.

Abomination is one of the strongest words in Hebrew, because any spiritual, emotional or relational manipulation is equivalent to false scales and God detests it because it violates His nature. These words stopped me dead in my tracks and I heard in my spirit, “The church, has taken on the Name of the Lord, but has not taken on His nature.”

Friends, we are the church, it is not a building, it is people, believers. We call ourselves Christians, we have taken on the Name, but we are long overdue to take on the nature of God. We must realize this is not about a Name only it is about His nature as well. For us to be a just weight, whole, sound, we must take on the nature of God and this will bring Him delight. We must add His nature to His name in our lives. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org