Judgment Seat of Christ

“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Cor. 5:9-10

The judgment seat of Christ or ‘the Bema seat’. A judgment for believers of Christ following the rapture. A time when “each one’s work will become clear: for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is” 1 Cor 3:13.

Seeing and believing that such events will occur how should our lives be? How broken and pure? How merciful and bold? How unpretentious and focused?

This calls us back to the very foundation of the gospel, a focus on Jesus Christ. A heart focus that causes our hearts to desire ever more a purity, a cleansing, a holiness, and a repentance. Not for the mere sake of Christ’s coming review of our lives but for the realization of peering into his eyes and seeing his pain at our shortcomings. All the while enjoying the joys of recognition that fully come from Christ alone anyway.

O how the heart aches for sanctification in Christ!