Rock Wisdom

Proverbs 20:10 (KJV) Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

You find in the margin of some translations the explanation that when Proverbs here talks about different weights, it is talking about stones, or rocks.  Picture a balance beam scale where you put the bananas on one side, and a rock weighing 12 ounces on the other.  Then the person would pay for 12 ounces of bananas.

A literal translation of this is a rock and a rock. The application is that the dishonest merchant will have two sets of rocks under the table, and he will switch them for different customers or different transactions. Thus he will charge over for one and under for another. The rocks look the same to the casual observer, but the results are different.

Where I’m going with this is to give Christians some insight into our social mores.  We have things like affirmative action, as it used to be called.  We do have different ways of saying it, such as multiculturalism and DEI and so forth.  What we end up doing is using different measurements for different people based on whether we are buying or selling so to speak.  The point here is that this is not acceptable for Christians.

So?  If you are in the habit of evaluating people based on the measurements that your woke friends like then you are acting in a way that God calls an abomination.  Reverse discrimination is still discrimination.  Different measures for the same product is still an abomination.  Think about it because you live your life today.