Digital Electronic Scales

Consider how the need for digital electronic scales affected two young men who lived almost three thousand miles apart on a warm June day just last year. The first young man lived in eastern Pennsylvania on a dairy farm, and the second in the city of Los Angeles. Each of these fellows would have the need for digital scales before too long for the exact same purpose, but for different circumstances and needing very different types of precision weighing instruments. Electronic weighing devices and digital counting scales would become the focus for both of them. "Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth." (Psalm 124:8)

Our easterner lived on a farm and belonged to the local high school 4-H club. Farming was in his blood and the teen was planning a degree in agriculture at the state university. In three weeks the young man would enter the hog that he had raised for almost a year in the state fair livestock competition, and from all the information that could be gathered, the animal had a very good chance of taking home a blue ribbon. The money received from the sale of the animal could at least help pay for books the first couple of years at college. Have you seen the price of college books lately? Whew! The second young man was in seventh grade and attended an all year round school where the annual science fair was taking place on the same day as the hog judging in Pennsylvania. The young man was doing a study on various diets for mice, and their effect on weight gain and soon the student would need digital electronic scales to score well in the science fair.

The Californian, who would soon need digital counting scales for his project, had raised three mice on three different diets for two and a half months. The mice were all part of the same brood born to a female in captivity at a pet store and looked to be about the same size when brought home for the grand experiment. The young student's mother was a lab technician and worked late hours, so it was made very clear that the student was in charge of the mice totally as well as the science fair project itself. The student began getting the posters ready and looking forward to the fair. The young man had hypothesized that one of the diets would bring more weight gain than the other two diets.

The 4-H student had made this hog a life mission to score big at the state fair. The student had weighed the pig every two weeks to track its growth through the fall, winter and spring. The hog's weight rapid weight gain would put a bariatric physician into full blown depression. In a little under a year, the porker had put on over a thousand pounds. The young farmer did not have access to any digital electronic scales, so the student used his father's fairly rusty and ancient livestock weighing device in the barn to chart the behemoth's growth. Optimism around the farm, at school, at the student's local church and newspaper hung heavy like over ripe apples in an orchard.

The Los Angeles student came to the youthful realization two days before the science fair that there was no method of weighing these tiny white creatures. As many seventh graders might do, crisis mode suddenly hit with full force. The student stayed up until his mother arrived home and asked what now? Of course, motherly instinct took over and she tucked him in the car at eleven thirty at night and took him to the lab where she worked. The lab had over fifteen different digital counting scales, used for weighing numbers of things such as pharmaceuticals. Other industries used digital counting scales for weighing such things as screws, electrical components, and things needing a weigh tolerance of up to a millionth of an ounce. The caring mom took him into the darkened lab and he was able to weight the three little white beauties, and found his hypothesis to be correct, but only by three grams.

On the same day at the state fair, each hog entrant was weighed on a large set of digital electronic scales. Weighing on these precision scales, the young man's hog came in at twenty two pounds, three ounces heavier than in the barn at home. These scales, meant to weigh objects up to two thousand pounds were accurate to within one tenth of one percent. Later in the day, the close second in the competition came in at four pounds and eight ounces lighter than the eastern student's hog. The young man took home over fifteen hundred dollars for his hard work. He also bought a new piglet and began another quest for next year.

Highly accurate weighing devices are needed in today's industries where profit margins are often razor thin before any calculations even get started. Digital electronic scales are used to weigh everything from baby elephants to semi trucks, and digital counting scales are used for smaller and more precise measurements. A lot of people think that God will use scales to figure out whether we can enter heaven. The more good deeds, the more kind thoughts, the more church attendance and the more charity money donated equals a much better chance of tipping the scales towards eternal life. God's method is much simpler: do we have belief in the fact that Jesus died for our sins and that His bodily resurrection proves He is who He says He is, Almighty God?

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