Friday Reading: Romans 2:1-4
Key Verse: Romans 2:1
1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things.
Devotion:
Ok, time for some truth... How many times have you told someone else to do something one way only for you to go and do it another way? Or how many times have you told someone that a particular thing that they are doing is not right and you go off and do it anyway? We are all guilty of doing that at some stage in our lives but if we continue to do things in that manner after we have been born again then we are not living according to God’s ways. When we ask Christ to forgive us of our sins it should be in the manner of “Please forgive me. I will not go that way again.” Christ knows that we are weak and that we will give in to many temptations but if we are willing to listen to Him rather than our own deceitful hearts then we will be able to walk a better life!
The very rules that we blame others with are the very same rules that will trap us in what we do. There is no getting away from the law because it is. God’s Law stands now just as it stood at the beginning of time, nothing has changed in the law but we have changed in how we interpret it and how we uphold it! By those very same changes that we make we are condemning ourselves because we are changing God’s Law. No matter how far we try to run or how much we try to change the law, we are still going to be accountable to Christ when we have completed our life here on earth. I would rather that He be on my side and defend me that me having to try and defend myself knowing that I have broken the laws!
Christ gave His life so that we would not have to give our lives for our sins. He took on that sin debt so that we do not have to. Just because He has already done that does not mean that we can go out and ignore the law from now on – we are still bound by it and every time we break it Christ is the one who has paid for our wrong doing. We at least owe it to Him to be 100% honest with Him even if we cannot be so with others...
Points to Ponder:
Do you judge others?
What would you do if Christ judged you right now?
