Judge Of The Whole Earth
Just Thinking - from an old meditation.
Some say I'm most likely an overthinker, or I think to much. If so in the midst of my overthinking today this verse came up as the verse for today on my Bible app.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 42:2
My mind took me back several years when I was visiting a church. During the lesson time or, as some might call it as an opening before Sunday School the woman leading was asking for characteristics of God. There were several familiar truths called out that she wrote on the board. God is love. God is merciful. God is forgiving. And more were given. As each one was written on the board with a smile the lady elaborated on that aspect of who God is.
I chose to add the fact that God is Judge, the Judge of the whole earth. Her face went blank, wrote that down on the board and quickly asked for others. Other than the fact it didn't seem to fit in like all the other glorious attributes that were named I really left uncertain of why the woman had no excitement about God being the Judge.
Reading the verse I quoted above it ends with:
When shall I come and appear before God?
This psalmist was eagerly seeking an audience before his Creator, before the Judge of the whole earth. The list of the "good" qualities of God may often be considered to be such with "no strings attached". God is love. God is omnipresent. God is omniscient. God is omnipotent. True! True! True! True. God is Judge actually requires our presence, our personal relation to Him, before Him.
What is so glorious about heaven?
God is there. Jesus Christ is there. Oh the reality of facing Him with whom we have to do! Accepting and facing the realization that when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that those who know Him will be doing this willing and joyfully. And Him with whom we have to do is the Judge of the whole earth. What is great to know and realize is:
WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE! We have been declared as being justified. The simplistic breakdown of justified is just.as.if.I'd never sinned. With Jesus Christ covering us with His robe of righteousness we have all of Christ when we stand, bow, kneel before God the Judge.
Abraham wasn't afraid to use the Judge of the whole earth as a bargaining point when he pleaded for Sodom and Gomorrah. We shouldn't be ashamed to stand before the Judge of the whole earth with Jesus Christ as our Advocate and have His righteousness as our covering.