The Master Will Judge
“
“We must all appear before the judgment seat
of Christ .”
2 Corinthians
Paul says that we must all, preachers and
other people alike, "appear before
the judgment seat of Christ." But if you will learn here and now to
live under the scrutiny of Christ’s pure light, your final judgment will bring
you only delight in seeing the work God has done in you. Live constantly
reminding yourself of the judgment seat of Christ, and walk in the knowledge of
the holiness He has given you.
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another
person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you
are. One carnal judgment of another person only serves the purposes of hell in
you. Bring it immediately into the light and confess, "Oh, Lord, I have been guilty there." If you do not, your
heart will become hardened through and through. One of the penalties of sin is
our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes sin, but sin establishes
itself in the sinner and takes its toll. No struggling or praying will enable
you to stop doing certain things, and the penalty of sin is that you gradually
get used to it, until you finally come to the place where you no longer even
realize that it is sin. No power, except
the power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit, can change or
prevent the inherent consequences of sin.
"If we walk in the light as He is
in the light . . ." ( 1 John 1:7). For
many of us, walking in the light means walking according to the standard we
have set up for another person. The deadliest attitude of the Pharisees that we
exhibit today is not hypocrisy, but that which comes from unconsciously living
a lie.
Taken from
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. copyright 1935 by Dodd Mead &
“When Paul was thinking of the life to come, he never forgot
that we are on the way not only to glory, but also to judgment. …some day we shall await the verdict of
God. When we remember that, life becomes
a tremendous and a thrilling thing, for in it we are making or marring a
destiny, winning or losing a crown. Time
becomes the testing ground of eternity.”
William Barclay