Monday, October 13, 2014

"God Is the Judge"

Psalms 50 [A Psalm of Asaph.] As we begin this next Psalm there is something that we must get through our thick skulls, God is the Judge! We all have people in our lives that need to be either saved or restored, and they all have one great big problem with coming to God: being judged by God; whether that is because they do not want to give up something or they do not believe that God can forgive them, either way, they have an issue with God's judgment. Compound their problem with the way so called "loving Christians" judge them, and you have makings of a personal war between what is right and what is righteous. These are really very touchy times that we are living in, because so many of our children are being given so called truth without the foundation of where truth comes from. If we do not establish that God is the Giver of the law and the Judge of that law He has been given, then the law is whatever we decide to make it, and all things are permissible. Any society that is ran under man's rule is going to perish; although, at this point in time that really does not matter any more, because Jesus is coming really really soon; that's not a prediction, that is a fact! Unfortunately not every Bible believing Christian holds to that agreement, nor do they also believe all of the Bible. How can someone say they believe the Bible but not believe it all is true? It is this "all about me" life that we are living that allows for that to happen, when it should be all about God's judgment; because if we lived as though God is the Judge, then we might care a little more about every word that He has spoken. Instead, we pick and choose what laws pertain to us, taking what truths we want to except, and letting others tell us what certain passages of Scriptures actually mean; while all the while believing that we have it right based upon our own understanding of what is right. But it is not based upon what is right in our own eyes, it is ultimately based upon the righteousness of God! I see a couple different types of people being judged, and I want to be in the right group; the one's that beg for mercy because we know that we need His forgiveness, and the one's that are so very thankful for His grace because we know where we stand without it... "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?" (Isaiah 57:1-6)
  

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