God Is Watching the Scale

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. - Daniel 5:27

One of the most exhausting parts of living in uncertain times is the feeling that injustice goes unchecked. When leaders act without integrity, when systems protect power instead of people, and when suffering seems invisible, anxiety grows. We start to wonder if fairness even exists anymore.

Daniel chapter 5 speaks directly into that fear. The second word written on the wall was “Tekel,” which means weighed and found wanting. God was telling King Belshazzar that his leadership had been measured, not by wealth or strength, but by justice and character. When placed on God’s scale, he came up short.

God’s scale is different from the world’s. It does not measure popularity, success, or influence. It measures how leaders value people. It weighs whether power is used to protect or exploit. When leaders lose the capacity to value human life, they lose moral weight.

This truth matters deeply for anyone who feels worn down by watching wrongdoing continue without consequence. Scripture reminds us that God sees what others overlook. He hears the cries that go unanswered. He notices the quiet harm done behind closed doors.

God weighs hearts, motives, and actions, not appearances. What looks impressive on the outside does not always hold up under divine examination.

Knowing that God is watching the scale allows you to release the burden of fixing everything yourself. Justice is not absent just because it is delayed. God’s judgment is steady, patient, and certain. Nothing escapes His attention, and no injustice lasts forever.