“The greatest reason why you should prepare to meet your God is because you MUST meet your God.”
It is not optional.
No excuse slips will be accepted. Your physical death nor your grave will keep you from it. There will be no back door to escape. No escape anywhere. No escape.
Unless your case is settled out of court through a meeting with the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, you MUST appear the judgment bar of God and are going to meet with yourself in the presence of God.
What a terrifying thought to meet with yourself, all your evil thoughts, evil words and sinful actions revealed in the presence of a pure, sinless Holy God who hates sin. A Holy God whose Son you have rejected as your Savior and whose precious blood that was shed for the forgiveness of your sins you have trampled under your feet. A Holy God who is described as a consuming fire.
“But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judges them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shall escape the judgement of God.”
Romans 2: 2 tells us that man’s judgement will be according to truth. Every individual sees himself in the distorted mirror of his own imagination. We have seen mirrors in amusement parks which make a tall man look short and a thin man look fat. The human imagination makes the individual see himself in some sort of comparison with others, and always in a light more favorable than is justified by the truth. The coming of the judgment will destroy that distortion; a “hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies” (Isa. 28:17).
You will be forced to look upon yourself as you are in reality, that is, as you are in the sight of God.
And verse 3 says that there will be no escape. No escape. Don’t forget that –no escape.
No, there is no escape. But wait! There is a way of having your case settled out of court. You must move fast. You must come to Christ now. For now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Everywhere the Bible teaches us that the issues of eternity are settled in this life. There is no second chance. The Lord said, If ye “die in your sins; wither I go, ye cannot come….for if ye believe not that I am he [Jehovah] ye shall die in your sins” (John 8:21, 24).
Today His mercy calls. You are guilty, but you can yet escape through Christ. If you refuse God’s mercy, you must face His wrath.
Come Today To Christ!
Carl
Excerpts from Donald Grey Barnhouse, Romans 1, pp. 12-14, 22
Psalm 119: 38 