The scale. Humans tend to live as if their is a scale weighing our good deeds and our bad. We think if we can just do enough good it will all balance out. The message of the gospel is that we can't balance the scale, but Christ has on our behalf.

Digging Deeper Questions:

Is there something in your life about which you are a perfectionist, some task for which "good enough" is never good enough? If so, why do you think you're so hard on yourself, and perhaps others, about that particular thing?

How does the notion of "throwing out the scale" in regard to God make you feel? Does it strike you as liberating, or as cheap grace and too good to be true?

Is it your instinct to see God as demanding perfection or as eager to forgive?