Regarding the Rules

Recently, I was in traffic court. I experienced the extreme discomfort of standing before a judge. I had transgressed the law. Although I didn’t purposely break the law, it didn’t make me any more innocent. Those that filled the courtroom were waiting for their turn to give a defense for their actions. They like myself did not know what the judge’s final verdict would be.

God is a judge. It might not be popular to speak about God as ‘The Judge,’ but in fact He considers it His very important duty to exact perfect justice.

As a just God, He cannot overlook the sins of anyone. Every last sin, big and small, public or private, thought or deed, all must accompany us to the Great Judgment Seat of Christ. “The Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motive’s of men’s hearts” (1 Corinthians 4:5).

We only can escape the “Guilty” verdict in the finished work of Christ Jesus on the cross. “And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin” (1 John 3:5). Only in Jesus alone can we find mercy.

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