p. 16 | Face the Judgment Now

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 26, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 26.

Face the Judgment Now

There is hope, however, for each one. We may send our sins beforehand to judgment. We may give them all up to God. We may in humility and faith place our case in the hands of the only Mediator and Advocate—Jesus Christ. We may hear His cheery voice, as Lowth's translation puts it: “Come on now, and let us plead together; tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; tho they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isa. 1:18. Face the judgment now, soul, or you must face it in the day of God. Uncover all your sins by hearty confession before the Judge. Condone nothing, excuse nothing, palliate or shade nothing. Let the sin stand out in all its black, damnable ugliness. But, O, leave it there with the Judge. Let Him condemn the sin forever; but let Him see you hiding behind Jesus Christ, see that you have broken partnership with sin forever. So shall you stand in the judgment clad in the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. The law of judgment will be a law of love and delight to your soul, and you will see in the Judge a Father and Friend.