For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ.

— 2 Corinthians 5:10

Paul says that we must all, preacher and people alike, “appear before
the judgment seat of Christ.” If you learn to live in the white light
of Christ here and now, judgment finally will cause you to delight in
the work of God in you. Keep yourself steadily faced by the judgment
seat of Christ; walk now in the light of the holiest you know. A
wrong temper of mind about another soul will end in the spirit of the
devil, no matter how saintly you are. One carnal judgment, and the
end of it is hell in you. Drag it to the light at once and say – “My
God, I have been guilty there.” If you don’t, hardness will come all
through. The penalty of sin is confirmation in sin. It is not only
God who punishes for sin; sin confirms itself in the sinner and gives
back full pay. No struggling nor praying will enable you to stop
doing some things, and the penalty of sin is that gradually you get
used to it and do not know that it is sin. No power save the incoming
of the Holy Ghost can alter the inherent consequences of sin.

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light.” Walking in the
light means for many of us walking according to our standard for
another person. The deadliest Pharisaism to-day is not hypocrisy, but
unconscious unreality.

On this day...

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