There is a new game show on called The Moment of Truth. It is brutal. The idea is that a contestant is asked very personal questions and their answers have been previously checked through a lie detector apparatus. So, on national television they sit under the brightest of lights and all their secrets are unveiled. Are you more comfortable when you are with your less attractive friends? (Nice) Have you ever hit on one of your fiance's friends?(What a scum bag) Have you ever stolen from an employer?(now unemployed) Do you think your wife is fat? (Oh, just go ahead and kill that guy now) I watched for about 10 questions and then couldn't take it any more. I don't care how much money is being offered, if someone knows the right questions to ask, it just isn't worth it. And then it hit me. That is what heaven is like. I sit in a chair and God asks me questions. Only in heaven I can't help but blurt out the truth...about everything. The Bible talks of God like he is the brightest of light. There is no hiding from Him. But, I can see it in my mind's eye, when my name is called to go and sit in the chair, Jesus speaks up and says,"I will sit in for Joe". So, Jesus sits and answers all the questions and of course his answers are absolutely great and he has nothing to hide. Do you want to know what the verse means "But God made him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of God"? I invite you to watch 10 minutes of the show, The Moment of Truth, and you will drop to your knees and thank the one who died on a cross so you would never have to sit in that chair. Imagine the answers Jesus gives on your behalf...Have you ever loved anything more than you love God? And Jesus would look calmly and squarely at the camera and smile and say,"No, I have never loved anything more than I love God". And all the questions would be over and he would come over to you and hug you and say," I went to the cross so I could stand in for you and give that answer". Now that is a Moment of Truth.
Friday, February 1, 2008
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AMEN !
You're not kidding that show is brutal and mean-spirited.
Jesus stepping in to answer for me? Talk about a "lifeline" (oops...different game show).
That is the truth. Do you think we will be squirming as well when we are asked to give an account of how we were witnesses for Christ? Did you talk to that guy in the restaurant that I had come by? When you fed the poor did you tell them why you did?
Your blog hit home. Where I am so overwhelmed and thankful that Christ will take my hotseat for my sin, I am not sure that I want the hot seat for how I was as a believer in my witnessing either. I will be on my knees for sure.
Joe,
We are all terrible aren't we? But, for the grace of God what would I be? Woe is me.
But God saved the day!
S
SM, you said it just like the Apostle Paul did in Romans 7 -"Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Joe, very encouraging, thank you.
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