Daily Devotional: Thursday, September 5 – Giving Account

“So then, every of us will give an account of ourselves to God.” — Romans 14:12

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When the clock strikes 0:00 and the sport is over, followers flip off their televisions or head for the stadium exits. Their day is over. However the work day is much from over for the skilled athletes and coaches. Usually, they may have a number of media obligations to meet after every recreation. There’s the community tv interview, the native information station, and naturally, the press convention, and at every cease they’re requested for his or her opinions and views on the sport they simply performed.

Followers of Jesus may also should “give an account of ourselves to God” if we die earlier than Christ returns. We’ll stand earlier than God, the Righteous Judge, and clarify the life we simply lived. There, in that second, we can have our greatest alternative but to glorify our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ.

We’ll level to not ourselves or something that we’ve accomplished as a result of “it’s by grace you might have been saved, by religion — and this isn’t from yourselves, it’s the present of God — not by works, in order that nobody can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

No, we is not going to level to ourselves. We’ll level to Christ, with all of our being, and declare that God “selected us in him earlier than the creation of the world to be holy and innocent in his sight” (Ephesians 1:4). We’ll declare that “whereas we have been nonetheless sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8) due to the great love with which He loved us. Christ made us new creations, and Christ calls us His special possession. And as we stand there, all of our earthly days having handed, we will declare with pleasure that He who started a very good work in us has been devoted to His promise to carry it on to completion within the day of Christ Jesus.

Athletes typically give glory to God of their postgame interviews; by no means is God’s glory most clearly on show than when a sinner-turned-saint, by His grace, stands in His presence and rejoices anew in all He has accomplished.

— Kevin Mercer

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