For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God (Rom. 14:11).
The time will come when every voice in the universe, angelic and human, will acknowledge the righteousness and justice of God. Every knee, both of pride and of humility, will bow before Him. Here the apostle has just declared that "we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ" (Rom. 14:10); and to sustain this statement he quotes from Isaiah 45:23, "For it is written,...every tongue shall confess to God."
Christ is the Son of God the Father, who "hath committed all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22). Therefore, He is the absolute master of us all--to rule, to judge our works, words, and thoughts, and to dispose of our eternal destiny. We do not see all the ways of God now, but someday we shall. "Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face" (1 Cor. 13:12).
"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed sleepily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Eccl. 8:11). But the Lord's righteous sentence will someday be executed, and everyone will acknowledge that it is righteous.
The time will come when the word will go forth: "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints....For all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest" (Rev. 15:3, 4). God's justice will be manifest to all. To some it will be a cry of despair like that of Judas, "I have betrayed the innocent blood" (Matt. 27:4); or like the demon who recognized the deity of our Savior and said, "I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God" (Mark 1:24). But to us may it be the cry of admiration and love: "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker" (Ps. 95:6).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments" (Ps. 119:7).
The time will come when every voice in the universe, angelic and human, will acknowledge the righteousness and justice of God. Every knee, both of pride and of humility, will bow before Him. Here the apostle has just declared that "we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ" (Rom. 14:10); and to sustain this statement he quotes from Isaiah 45:23, "For it is written,...every tongue shall confess to God."
Christ is the Son of God the Father, who "hath committed all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22). Therefore, He is the absolute master of us all--to rule, to judge our works, words, and thoughts, and to dispose of our eternal destiny. We do not see all the ways of God now, but someday we shall. "Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face" (1 Cor. 13:12).
"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed sleepily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Eccl. 8:11). But the Lord's righteous sentence will someday be executed, and everyone will acknowledge that it is righteous.
The time will come when the word will go forth: "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints....For all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest" (Rev. 15:3, 4). God's justice will be manifest to all. To some it will be a cry of despair like that of Judas, "I have betrayed the innocent blood" (Matt. 27:4); or like the demon who recognized the deity of our Savior and said, "I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God" (Mark 1:24). But to us may it be the cry of admiration and love: "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker" (Ps. 95:6).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments" (Ps. 119:7).
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