Shortchanged (Version 1)
Illustration★★★★A baker suspected that the farmer who was supplying his butter was giving him short-weight. He carefully checked the weight for several days, and his suspicions were confirmed. Highly indignant, he had the farmer arrested. At the trial the judge was satisfied and the baker chagrined at the farmer’s explanation. He (the farmer) had no scales, so he used balances; and for a weight he used a one-pound loaf of bread bought daily from the baker.
Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top.
The point
A baker suspects a farmer of short-weighing butter; at trial, the farmer reveals he used no scales, only the baker's own daily loaves as weights—ironically, the baker had been cheating himself through his own dishonest supplier.
Scripture
Galatians 6:7
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 92 words