
As with many of the Daily Picture devotionals, I often get sequels to messages. Yesterday I heard an ardent young follower of Christ affirming what I said about the need to wholly bring ourselves to God Who sees and hears all we do and say anyway. On many occasions in the bible we are told that there is going to be an ultimate judgement seat (see, for instance, 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelations 20:12; Matthew 12:36). As the young man said, "Come clean before the King ...what you confess, Jesus will cover, but what you try to cover, Jesus will uncover." Don't desist from bringing everything in to the light of Jesus, for Him to change us. The moment we receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour all our sin is taken from us so there is nothing to fear at the Judgement Seat. However, the process of admitting our sin, as we learn to recognise it (as not all is obvious to us at first), and the resultant change, indicates we have faith in Jesus. If we are not in the process of change, do we actually have faith in Jesus and how He has saved us from our sin? "And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ".(Philippians 1:6). Let Him change us as it is for our absolute good. Left to our own devices we are left with our sin.