Read Ecclesiastes 12:14. Revelation 20:1-15
A man was a prime suspect in a brutal murder, but all the evidence was circumstantial. Therefore the man was never arrested or tried for the crime. One night the man was traveling on an interstate highway. He became drowsy and pulled over for a short nap. As he slept, a truck loaded with logs came along. Just as the truck passed the man’s vehicle, the chain holding the logs in place broke. The logs fell on his car and crushed him to death! Was it an accident? Or was it the principle of divine justice doing what humanity’s system of justice could not do? No one can say with certainty, but it is worthy of thought.
We may avoid human judgment. We may avoid the courts. We may fool a lot of the people a lot of the time. But we will never get away with it. One day we will stand before God and everything will be revealed and reviewed by God.
The last verse of the entire book of Ecclesiastes really sums up the message of the book. It gives us the ultimate motivation for obeying God and seeking to please Him throughout all of life. Verse 14 reads, “For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”
God will bring every deed into judgment, even the hidden deeds we think we’ve gotten away with.
If we fear God we will live our lives seeking to please God. If we ignore God and don’t fear Him, we will find ourselves having to explain our actions to Him and then it will be far too late. But there is hope. Read tomorrow’s notes to find out what hope you have.
Prayer:
ª Pray that the reality of the final judgment would sink deep into our hearts and that we would understand what that entails. Pray that we would comprehend the eternity of those who keep rejecting God and that we’d seek to reach out to them with the love of Jesus.
1. As you read the Bible you are convicted to do something you really don’t want to do. How should you respond?
2. If we disagree with something in the Bible, what can we do?
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