Skip to main content

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?
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Where Truth Is Found...

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven." - George Herbert, British Poet 1593 - 1633 The above is a true statement and one could give credit to George Herbert for his wisdom in that saying, but the truth and wisdom found in those words did not originate with him. They originated with The Author of truth and wisdom - The Judge of the universe... “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6:14-15 (NKJ) ...Christ Jesus. With deception being a tool of the enemy   and being spread  widely with the help of mankind these days, it's a struggle for some to recognize what the truth really is. It's good for us who follow Christ to remember that whatever we might think or reason with ourselves to be true, our opinion c...
Post a Comment
Read more

Fear not.

There's a lot going on in the world and a lot available to provoke fear for the future, but I have a question for anyone who might feel themselves tempted to fear - If you truly know God, does He ever change? “I am the LORD, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed." Malachi 3:6 (NLT) We stand reinforced in our understanding and belief that He does not change, so... "The LORD says, “I will rescue those who love me.  I will protect those who trust in my name.  When they call on me, I will answer;  I will be with them in trouble.  I will rescue and honor them.  I will reward them with a long life  and give them my salvation.” Psalm 91:14-16 (NLT) I know that I said that I had "a" question, but I actually have another - do you really, truly love Him? “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heave...
Post a Comment
Read more

God Blesses Those...

"And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:... " Matthew 5:1&2 (NKJ) In the 5th chapter of the book of Matthew, we find Jesus teaching His disciples. What He taught them there is often referred to as the Sermon on the mount. And within that teaching are a number statements that are commonly referred to as The Beatitudes. I humbly suggest that whoever it was that coined that term might have been more accurate and to the point if they had called them  The " BE-  Attitudes" since Jesus was in fact telling His disciples both then and now, about the spirit of how to "be". “Blessed are the poor in spirit,  For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn,  For they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek,  For they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,  For they shall be filled. Blessed a...
Post a Comment
Read more