GOD is Judge, not us !

God judges right and wrong. Indeed God is the Judge of what is “right” and what is “wrong”. God judged the disobedience of Adam and Eve; God judged Jesus Christ for the sins of God’s elect; and God will judge the entire human race on the Final Day of Judgment.

God is Moral, and God enforces God’s moral code. This is central, fundamental, spiritual truth which cannot be ignored. Yes, fallen human beings deny the existence of God, or they deny that God is moral. The claim that God loves us, whatever we do, is dangerous error.  The reality is the reverse: God judges what we do.

God will judge for eternity, and God judges in the here and now. Yes, it can take time – sometimes years, even decades. But God does Judge.

I see the judgement of God in the dismissal of the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Sunak came to power by immoral and undemocratic means. Now, he has been humiliated by the correct procedure by which a UK Prime Minister should be appointed.

Manipulation is a sure sign of failure to  trust in God. Those who manipulate try to be God of the situation – What did the serpent do in the garden ? But God is a jealous God and will not allow any human being to persist indefinitely in such blasphemous usurpation !

We are not to rule our circumstances – we are to rule ourselves in accordance with the spirit and intent of God’s moral code. We are to judge ourselves. By obeying God, we trust to God for our situation. That way we keep ourselves in the right place both before God and within our own perception.  Otherwise we play at being God in our lives; we usurp the place which God alone should occupy. When we do that, God will judge us – sooner or later.

We witness this very problem all around us, every day. We live with the ruinous consequences it engenders. There is no sense of any accountability to God who sees and knows all. Instead, our sense of accountability extends only to how much other people know about us. If we can hide our wrong, we deceive ourselves that can get away with it ! That is a recipe for social breakdown.

This lack of objective accountability means that politicians and people in power routinely abuse their position of trust.  They will themselves pay the consequences, eventually. In the meantime, both innocence and the innocent pay the price.

God sees such abuse, and God acts against such abuse, sooner or later. Would that politicians and those who wield power in media, judiciary and business realised this and acted accordingly. They would consider the impact on God’s creatures and creation. They would behave more responsibly and effectively. They would have God’s blessing in place of God’s hostility. Those affected by their power would reap the blessing too.

The correct conception of God as a moral arbiter and Judge is very serious indeed. It is foundational and essential Christian doctrine with vital consequences for both the quality of human life, and for life itself. Christian doctrine is not optional, conceptional hypothesis but vital, critical and practical. It must frame our thinking and our attitudes, and so frame our actions. Remember,  it is by our actions that God will judge us on the Day of Final Judgement – have we lived by Jesus teaching, or just listened and moved on ? Have we built our lives, and indeed our nations, on the sure foundation of Christ –  or on the shifting, treacherous sands of Self ?

The doctrine of God’s Judgement is there in the beginning, the middle and the End – at the Fall, at the cross and before the throne of Christ. It is the sine qua non of Christian spirituality, life and doctrine. Yet, it has been deleted from teaching. Such deletion is not just heresy, but apostasy. It has led to an entirely false notion of God and of how God deals with us. It has led to a corrupted and emasculated Gospel message which perverts the nature and meaning of God’s love for us. It makes God’s love after the fashion of our fallen and sinful human nature – a selfish, indulgent, emotional conception which destroys the true meaning of the word, “love”.

The real meaning of love was demonstrated at the Cross by Jesus Christ. It is a sacrificial love which gives for the welfare of others, overlooking the cost to ourselves. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. True love does not fail, but persists – and Jesus love personifies it.

This love seeks first and foremost to honour and please God, not Self. We love others for their good. Taking this mindset, we will sow love – we will reap love and blessing.

Imagine if people in power adopted this attitude. What a complete contrast to the self aggrandising, self serving ‘love’ we see and endure ?

But we ourselves must be careful, not hypocritical. We must remember that God is Judge, not us. Yes,  we must assess who God is and what God wants from us. But we must eschew the place of a judgemental and ungracious attitude; we must not usurp the place of God toward others.

God requires that we do judge – our own selves. As individuals, we must be ruthless about the sin within.  We must indeed assess the world for what it is – sinful before God. But toward others, we must speak the truth in love and pray they may be saved.

The Christian doctrine of Judgement also has another vital but criminally neglected truth. Before the throne of God, Jesus Christ intercedes for us. Before the throne of God, the church too is called to intercede – for our neighbours, our nations, and our Governments.

Biden, Starmer, Macron are not the underlying issue. The spiritual issue is whether we meet our spiritual responsibility toward them:

Do we plead before the King of kings for them ?