"Owning Up" -2

"Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest." (Psalms 51:4) Basically it comes down to the simple fact that God knows everything, so you are not hiding anything from Him, therefore you might as well just admit that what you have done, you have done it right before His very eyes. It is not like when you were a kid, and you would hide from your parents, and do something that you were not to do; then they would question you, asking you what you have done, or did you do this or that; God does not need to ask, and when He says that you are guilty of something that you have done, He is justified when He says it because He saw you do it. It is kind of like with Thomas, who spoke against Jesus behind His back, but Jesus knew what He had said, just as if He had been right there when he said it; and when Jesus showed up, He knew exactly the words to say to Thomas when He got there: "Reach hither thy finger, and behold My hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side; and be not faithless, but believing." Talk about hitting the nail on the head, that was pretty much right to the point; Jesus was clear in His judgment of Thomas' faith, he was faithless and he needed to believe. Jesus was also clear when He said, "If you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sins" (John 8:24); it really does not get any clearer than that how important it is to know who Jesus really is; to not be faithless, but believe... "I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3:12-18)