At the Day of Judgment

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. – Matthew 25:19

At the day of judgment you will not have to cast up a hurried account in the gross, but every item shall be read. Can you prove that? Yes. “For every idle word that man shall speak, he shall be brought unto account at the day of judgment.” Now, it is in the items that men go astray. “Well,” says one, “If I look at my life in the bulk, I am not very much ashamed, but it is those items, those little items-they are the troublesome part of the account, that one does not care to meddle with.” Do you know that all yesterday was made up of littles? And the things of to-day are all little, and what you do to-morrow will all be little things. Just as the tiny shells make up the chalk hills, and the chalk hills together make up the range, so the trifing actions make up the whole account, and each of these must be pulled asunder separately. You had an hour to spare the other day-what did you do? You had a voice-how did you use it? You had a pen-you could use that-how did you employ it? …When God comes to look into our hearts at last, He will not only look at the great but at the little; everything will be seen into, the pence sins as well as the pound iniquities-all must be brought against us, and an exact account given.

We must take our own trial before God’s eternal tribunal, and nothing can bias our Judge, or give Him an opinion for or against us, apart from the evidence. Oh, how solemn this will make the trial, especially if we have no blood of Christ to plead! The great Advocate will get His people an acquittal, through His imputed merits, even though our sin in itself would condemn them. But remember, that without Him we shall never be able to stand the fiery ordeal of that last dread assize. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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