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When The Trumpet Sounds

When the mighty trumpet sounds to mark the return of the King of Kings and the arrival of the day of judgment, what will matter at that moment? What will our thoughts be? At that moment, the test of all tests will be over and the grading of our hearts and lives will begin. The mighty and terrible day of judgment will have arrived...

 to reveal even the best kept secrets of our lives and the deepest recesses of our hearts will be examined. There won't be time to change our answers to the questions He has asked. No time to go back and change who we are at that moment. The whole of our lives will be held up to be measured against the instruction and teachings that the Lord God, Holiest of Holys has given us to live by. He will look at the commissions that He has given us in this life to see if we fulfilled them in obedience as He commanded.

As we stand small and puny before the great throne of the omnipotent and holy God on that day, all of heaven will be watching breathlessly hoping to rejoice should His judgment find us acceptable to Himself. But at the same time, they will know also that His judgment could render a just verdict more terrible than any could dare to imagine. When He speaks it will be as thunder that shakes all of the heavens and His great eyes filled with Holy fire brighter than lightening will be looking down on us each in his turn as we are required to answer in response to His questions. Those eyes will see beyond any answer that we may give to the truthfulness of our response. There will be no excuses rendered just to satisfy our failure to serve His purpose for our creation. There will be no time in that moment of terror, if we are faced with failure, to go back and change what we have lived to satisfy the holy and just judgment of God. If we are to be judged unacceptable to Himself, it will mean that we have failed to fulfill the great purpose for which He gave us life.

When the trumpet sounds, there will be no mountain tall enough to hide under, and no ocean deep enough to hide us from His judgment. No denial of God's existence will prevent His judgment and none will escape their moment before His throne. None. So, how will He find us in that moment? At that very second, what will we be doing? Will our hearts be filled with unforgiveness for another even as we find ourselves trembling with terror having the need to ask for His? Will He find us spending our time at that moment fulfilling the desires of His heart? Or will He find us selfishly absorbed in our own? Will we be declaring His righteousness, grace and mercy? Or will we be whispering secrets about another? Will we be judging the content of our own hearts against His own? Or will we be busy condemning another when there are none who have not failed by His judgment? Will we be fulfilling the commissions He has given for our lives at that moment? Or will He find us engrossed in some selfish occupation of our time while others perish around us to suffer eternal damnation? How will we answer for the responsibility that He has given us to bring the revelation of salvation to another when we instead chose to spend our time feeding our own desires. How will we answer for the damnation of a life that we were given the commission to save? Will we find grace in His eyes for our own lives when we failed to to share the truth of all that He offers with our brother? Will He offer us even more grace as He finds us hording what He has already shared and commanded us to share with others?

What will it matter that we didn't get to finish the book we were reading or the soap opera we were watching? Will our thoughts be those of concern for the possessions we value? What about the relationships we share with men? As the eyes of great and awesome God of righteousness peer into our lives and souls, will money be of any value then? Will these be the concerns of our hearts? What will we say at that moment to the holy judge of all men? Will our questions be concerning things in this life? What will we offer up to the King for our eternal lives? Will it be our car? Our house or our honored position in this life?

When the eyes of God focus on us, will it be the sin and slothful complacency of our lives that He sees? Or will His eyes see in us the heart of the righteous Son that He adores ... when the trumpet sounds?
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