The Path-Judgment

“His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” – Matthew 25:21

Through this little series we have spoke of: birth, sin, spiritual death, spiritual birth, and now we come to death.  In plain terms, physical death.  Every man or women that comes to this earth is one day going to leave it at a time which they know not.  Death is on the path, it is the end of life here on earth, and the beginning of eternity.   

Once you have been made sanctified by the Holy Ghost and you are continuing in his will, living the sanctified life.  You nor anyone can ever know how much longer your life on earth may be.  It is in God’s will to decide.  The idea of physical death to a person who does not have a full relationship with Jesus Christ is something to fight against.  It is the expiration date on a life that they have invested in down here.  To the Christian, death is a promotion.  Jesus lived, so that we might live; not just spiritual life here on earth, but life after, in heaven.  He who “lays up his treasures here on earth” will reap only the splendor of this world, but those who do not and esteem the will of God rather; will reap spiritual blessings here and life eternal in the world to come.  You cannot indulged in the world down here, gaining and getting, and expect to find welcome in the world to come.  You are either a pilgrim here and a citizen there, or a citizen here and a stranger there.  Your physical death gives absolute judgment on where your citizenship truly is; though your sanctification is like a passport back to your homeland. As the old folks in my church used to say (the wisdom in this still astounds me) “we have a heaven to go to heaven in.”  If you have been made sanctified, and you are living the life through the Holy Spirit.  A little bit of heaven is in you.  Thereby you have been “set apart” from the world, the flesh, and the devil.  You have a little bit of heaven to take you to heaven.  As long as you keep His commandments, hours will turn to days, days to years, and one day you will look up and this road of life will be well traveled for Jesus Christ. 

The glorious welcome of “well done” (in my opinion) should be the mission statement of every Christian life (perhaps that statement is too lofty).  We are not living this life for ourselves, but for Jesus Christ, and on the day when we die.  The goal, the mission, the want of our entire being should be, and I imagine will be, to hear “well done.”  Mind you, and make no mistake; the Bible clearly tells and shows that He is a just God, and welcome will not be extended to those who have rejected Him.  The judgment of God is sure, clear, and absolute.  In the end, it won’t matter how big our house is, or how fast our car goes.  The bank account or resume will not count for anything.  What will matter is love.  Do we have the perfect love of God on the inside?  Did you love Him enough to renounce your way each day and follow His?  Did you love God and love your neighbor?  Did you walk the path, the path that is in His Holy Bible?  Though it seems on earth, these things count for very little, at death and judgment, they will count for a great deal.