And
This Is The Message I Proclaim –
That
The Day Is Coming When God,
Through
Christ Jesus, Will Judge Everyone’s Secret Life.
Scripture
Romans
2
16 And
this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God,
through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.
Observation
I
have been fooled and let down by people before and I am sure that you
have too! People who were very close to me. I thought that I knew
them only to find out later that I didn't really know them at all. I
have blindly trusted people only to find out later, and way too
late, that I should not have trusted them at all.
King
David knew and understood what it felt like to be betrayed by a
friend, he wrote in Psalms “Even
my best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my
food, has turned against me.” Psalm 41:9
All
of us have within us the capacity or the potential to disappoint,
fool, and even destroy someone else – all of us have the potential
to even betray our closest friend – there is only One who really
knows us, only One who really knows our secret life and His name is
Jesus.
And
one day Jesus is going to judge that secret life of mine and and He
is going to judge your secret life too!
This
means that I need to be a man of integrity. I need to be a loyal to
my friends. I need to keep my word.
If
a friendship or a relationship starts to go south, or starts to
deteriorate then I need to do everything within my power to get it
back on track.
And
yes, it definitely means that I need to guard my heart!
Proverbs
4:23
Jeremiah
17:9
9 “The
human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately
wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
Application
I
will be wise and not blindly trust someone – anyone – with my
finances. I will forgive quickly when I am hurt or betrayed. I will
let the problem be their problem not mine. I will let my Heavenly
Father avenge and take care of any person who wrongs me.
How
about you? How will you treat your enemies? Are you guarding your
heart? What is going on in that secret life of yours?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, one day I know that I will stand before You. Everything that
I have done in secret will be out in the open. I know that I can't
hide anything from You. Help me to guard my heart. Help me to be wise
with my finances. Help me to be quick to forgive when I have been
betrayed. I will not try to get even or hurt someone who has hurt me.
I will let You deal with them.
“May
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to
you, O Lord,
my rock and my redeemer.
Search
me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path
of everlasting life.” (Psalm
19:14; Psalm 139:23-24)
Daily
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 7; 2 Chronicles 4; Psalms 98; Romans 2
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