JUDGMENT DAY

   I just came across an article about what we will be judged for on that Judgment Day in the future. It is so important that we know what to expect, I had to come here and copy some of it here for saving for future and present reading. It is so revealing on how we should be living our lives right now. It is not to late to change. You have time, how much is up to God and your lifestyle. Let's begin:

The first and foremost judgment: JESUS:  How do you treat Jesus? Do you accept him or deny him? Do you believe in him? Do you follow his ways? Is he the figure to emulate in your life? How did your life show that you loved Jesus? Beatitudes, Ten Commandments, Fruits of the Spirit, and all the other good and positive things written in the Bible for our instruction on how to live life for Jesus.

We will be judged for our ACTIONS, not for our intentions.  We intend to do a lot of good things, but sometimes we fail miserably in actually doing them. Actions speak louder than words is a truth worth remembering and putting into our hearts and minds. Do what you intend to do if it is good. 

THE CHURCH: We will not be judged on whether we do or don't go to 'church'.  Church is not the building that we go to, sit and listen, and sing praises, give an offering etc.  Here is what the article says:

"Church has never been something you attend in a specific building at a specific time. Church has always been the followers of Jesus, living out His commands in their daily lives. You will not be judged for how many services you attend but you will be judged for how you lived out His commands in your everyday world"

Parables:  Jesus used parables to explain things in a way that they and us could understand what He meant. In the parable of the TALENTS, it shows us that the master (GOD) goes away and leaves his servants (we are his servants), and tells them to take care of what belongs to him, and he gives each of them a different amount of talents, (money) to see what they will do with it and he will expect an accounting of the same when he returns. The day he returns (judgment day) he asks them;  the first two had different amounts but both had doubled their amounts during his absence.  The third had a smaller amount but he didn't double it, he put it away for safe-keeping, not earning anything more for his master. "the third servant was condemned not for squandering his money, but for failing to leverage it and invest it."     What ever God gave us,  we are to improve on it. We all have a gift - to make people laugh, to help people heal, to write a truth, to preach, what ever it may be, develop it. 

LOVE: We will be judged on how we treat other people, whether they are a different color or a different religion, or a different nation, or a different perspective/mind, whether they are a neighbor or a stranger, whether they are rich or poor, whether you like them or not, JESUS TELLS US TO LOVE them as we love ourselves.  We are to love God/Jesus above everyone else in our lives, but secondly we are to love all people, not their actions or beliefs, but the person God made in the womb, his children.