Ezekiel 45:6-12: in context

In his vision of the restored land, God gives instructions that include a rebuke to Israel's leaders and a command about honesty. Enough, you princes of Israel, God says; remove violence and plunder, execute justice and righteousness, stop dispossessing my people. And then, turning to the ordinary dealings of the people, he commands: you shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath, honest weights and measures. God cares not only about the justice of rulers but about the honesty of everyday transactions, the accuracy of the scales by which people buy and sell.

It is striking that God, in a vision of the restored land, gives attention to something as ordinary as weights and measures. In the ancient world, a dishonest merchant could cheat by using false weights, a heavier weight when buying, a lighter one when selling, defrauding people in ordinary transactions. And God commands honest balances, just weights and measures, honesty in the everyday dealings of buying and selling. He cares not only about grand justice but about the integrity of ordinary transactions, the honesty of the scales. This reveals that God cares about our integrity in the ordinary dealings of life. We might think that honesty matters only in large or dramatic matters, and that small dishonesties in everyday dealings, a little cheating, a slight defrauding, a minor deception in business or transactions, do not much concern God. But he commands honest weights and measures; he cares about the integrity of ordinary dealings. A false balance, the proverb says, is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is his delight. God delights in honesty and abhors deception, even in the small transactions of daily life. This searches the integrity of our own everyday dealings. Are we honest in our ordinary transactions, in our business, our buying and selling, our dealings with others, or do we allow small dishonesties, little cheatings, slight deceptions, defrauding others in ways we tell ourselves are minor? God commands honest weights and measures; he cares about the honesty of our ordinary dealings, and a false balance is an abomination to him. This is a matter not only of not being caught but of integrity before the God who sees the scales. This calls us to honesty and integrity in the ordinary dealings of life. It is easy to be honest in the large matters while allowing small dishonesties in everyday transactions, telling ourselves they do not matter. But God commands honest weights and measures; he cares about the integrity of our ordinary dealings. And we are called to honesty in the small transactions as well as the large, dealing fairly and truthfully in our business and our everyday exchanges, not cheating or defrauding, but being people whose scales are just and whose dealings are honest, for an accurate weight is the LORD's delight, and a false balance an abomination to him.

Am I honest in the ordinary, everyday dealings of my life, in my business, my transactions, and my exchanges with others, or do I allow small dishonesties and slight deceptions that I tell myself do not matter, and can God's command to have just balances and honest weights and measures, and the truth that a false balance is an abomination to him but an accurate weight his delight, move me to integrity in the small transactions as well as the large, dealing fairly and truthfully before the God who sees the scales?