Lightning Flash-Matthew 24:27

Last night a loud thunder and lightning storm woke me up. The flashes of lightning seemed brighter than normal. As I laid there I began to think about the verse, Matthew 24:27, "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.” As I lay there in bed, darkness surrounded me and then in an instant the room lit up with a strike of lightning. I thought, imagine if the next time the lightning struck the darkness disappeared and there Jesus stood looking at me. As I lay there that thought spurred me in to prayer. I began to pray for some family members that are on my heart, I began to pray for some people in my church, I began to pray for some friends back In Michigan and finally I began to pray for myself. I began to talk to God about some areas in my life that I have been struggling with and I began to confess those sins to Him. And my thoughts went back to our evening service where we talked about the subject of judgment and began to pray that people would began to wake up to the reality of their sin. I began to pray that people would get ready for the second coming of Jesus Christ by getting real about their sinfulness. This topic of judgment is a hot topic these days and it is interesting to me that everybody has a take on it. Many people have sincere beliefs but can be sincerely wrong and many people are just sincerely wrong when it comes to this subject. Many people have adopted this motto, “Only God can judge me.” Well that is a true and RIGHT statement that people shouldn’t be proclaiming it lightly BECAUSE God does and will do this. The bible is clear~ ‘And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,’ Hebrews 9:27. See people like to say well only God can judge me and they say it in a way as if God is going to excuse them for their sinful lives. People need to understand God is a Holy And Just God that will judge people according to HIS Standard. And that standard is not you and it is not I, it is Jesus Christ! See judgment isn’t a matter of sin, we are all sinners that will continue to sin. Judgment takes place when we fail to acknowledge sin as sin and this is the reason why people like to say that we aren’t to judge because they don’t want their lifestyles, their thoughts and their actions to be called for what it is-sin. This is why it is so important for people to realize when they claim Christianity they need to make sure that they are really serious about acknowledging and fighting sin in their lives. Sin is so serious and so much of a problem between us and God He had His Son die on a cross. I often wonder how people can think that God would not judge people that make His sons sacerfice seem unnecessary by not acknowledging that their sin is wrong. Especially when He paid such a price for us to get forgiveness. I am no better or no worse to God than the person sitting in jail waiting to be tried for murder. I am no better than any one you reading this. The only thing that will spare me from facing the judgment of God will be the fact that I have acknowledged there are certain aspects of my life that is not right and I am making war on them and relying on God to help to overcome them. It is my prayer that people who profess Jesus Christ as their Savior will examine their lives see what is sin and that they will admit that it is sin. After all just as lighting comes so will the King of King's and Lord of Lord's