*WHAT WILL WE TELL JESUS WE DID WITH OUR LIVES?*
`For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whethergood or bad. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:10`
Will you be able to walk into the throne room of God with head held high, enter in _“confidence,”_ as it says in Hebrews. Would you? Just because you lived a polite, Christian life. There was no passion to rescue the lost from hell; no passion to stand for justice for the oppressed; no passion to serve the needy. You did not pick up your cross daily to serve Christ. Instead you have done what other people said you should do. You tithed 10 percent out of obligation, did daily devotions, and went to church on Sunday as long as there wasn’t something better going on.
Christian life had been duty without passion, resisting sin without the hatred of it, performing works without love. We are not overcome with gratitude that Jesus was crucified because of my sin; therefore I didn’t cry out daily, _”Father, let Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”_
Nice Christians don’t get rewards in heaven because they don’t win battles. They don’t win battles because they aren’t even fighting. You’re going to get another day, another chance in life. Don’t miss it. God has told you everything He wants you to know in His Word, and it clearly says that you will be judged for what you did with the gift of life and salvation He gave you. Ephesians 2:8–9 says, _“For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can boast._” It couldn’t be simpler or clearer. Even our faith isn’t from us. God had to give us the ability to believe in Him. LIVE FOR HIS CAUSE.
YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST,
APOSTLE ASHOK MARTIN