The Great Judgment

The Great Judgment “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.” Revelation 20:12 As I was growing up the subject of the Great Judgment of God was preached in my church almost every Sunday, as this is the essential ingredient that will someday be the deciding factor for our entrance into heaven. To see our name recorded in the Book of Life will be the most important thing that will ever define our success in life. We should all be living for eternity, as one day soon all of us will stand before a holy and just God, and be judged for the way we have lived. However during these past several decades I have observed a disturbing trend in our churches, and that is that this message of a Judgment Day is slowly disappearing from Church pulpits throughout our nation. I realize that things have changed since I was a child, and that our culture has become more materialistic, and that our religion has moved to a more “feel good” type of religion, one that is geared to appeal and more pleasantly popular to the masses. This kind of new age religion is usually what we see on television, and in the majority of the churches today. The “Old Time Religion”, that our forefathers taught, and we heard each Sunday, is something that much of the Christian world seems to have lost touch with today. I strongly feel that each of us needs to have the Great Judgment preached to us again each Sunday, as without this we will lose sight of our destiny in Christ Jesus, and will miss the extreme joy God has for those who follow Him. We do not know the time that Jesus will return, but we must be ready. My Daily Devotional Volume Six September 2 Robert William Brock, Jr.