Keep Your Eyes On The Goal
I’m not making excuses, but if I could have seen the land, I might have made it.
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I’m not making excuses, but if I could have seen the land, I might have made it.
It was in David’s heart to build a house for God. A worthy dream! I personally believe there are people who are perceived as failures, who will be judged as successes at the Judgment Seat of Christ. “Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
“I dwell in an house of cedars…” I dwell in the affluence of America, but what of missionaries doing God’s work in third world countries? Are my concerns confined within my own cedar walls, or do they go out to God’s servants in neglected field’s of ministry?
We have all been proven GUILTY of breaking God’s law and condemned. But we are JUSTIFIED by the blood of Christ (Rom. 5:9). Christ bore our guilt on the cross and suffered our punishment. When we believe on Christ as our Savior, His righteousness is imputed to us and He declares us justified—“Just-as-if-I-never-sinned.”