You’ve been served. You have a court date.
Such words bring either fear or relief depending on the circumstances. For those seeking justice, they offer long-awaited and hopeful consolation. But for the accused, they prompt fear and a scramble of legal due process.
However, how would we react if these words were intended for the courts of heaven?
Let’s suppose, at the beginning of our lives, an official summons arrived with regal lettering that read:
You Have an Eternal Court Date.
Your lifetime decisions, actions, and behaviors will be the evidence determining your destined appearance and subsequent judgment in one of two courtrooms.
How would that change the way we live?
The truth is, we’ve already received that summons. In His loving favor, God has already warned us about our inevitable court date in His Word. “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). Death’s…
