Topic: Romans 14:10-12
For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. It is written: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, ?every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.'" So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. (Romans 14:10-12)
Over more than thirty years in the practice of law, I have written hundreds of wills for clients. Some came back periodically to updates and some I never heard from again. In many cases I got calls from family telling me the person had passed away and I needed to probate the will. In some cases, people asked me to be their personal representative and manage their estate after their death. The duty of the personal representative is to take charge of assets of the estate, protect and preserve them and to pay bills, liquidate and ultimately distribute to remainder as provided in the will.
I received one of those calls recently. Years ago, I wrote a will for a man and heard recently of his passing, I was appointed as his estate's personal representative and began taking inventory of his assets. I started with his wallet, where he left eighty six dollars in cash. I went through his financial records, cashed in certificates of deposits, sold stock and then I started the inventory of his home, where he lived alone, and his personal property.
Walking into his home, it was like it had been frozen in time. His laundry was still hanging, having long since dried, His clothes for the next day were laid out on his bed. The day's newspaper he had apparently read lay beside his easy chair. There were some partially finished projects along with the tools on his work bench and his car was neatly parked in the garage. It was as if he had simply vanished and everything remained undisturbed the way he left it, as if he had merely taken a trip and would soon return. A neighbor asked what the old man left and I told here "everything."
I filled out a postal form to have his mail forwarded and when I did, they gave me something from the postal department that made me stop, stare and contemplate. It was a stack of post cards to send out with the message in bold print "I Moved!" to notify people of a new address.
It made me stop and think. This man didn't move in the sense the postal service card was referring to. In fact I am unaware of any postal service to either heaven or hell, though some of my past postal experiences seem to indicate that there was at least some occasional contact with the latter location.
I paused to think that some day all of us will make the ultimate move. We all have a date with destiny and the question is where we will go, heaven or hell. We will all stand before God's judgment seat and each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
The most important question for each of us then is when we make that ultimate move, will those we leave behind know what address to put on the card?
How would you describe where you "live" now in your spiritual walk with God? Are you content there?
Posted by Prophecies Of Revelation
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