I Have Judged you and found you Wanting

I have judged you and found you wanting. I can not get these words out of my mind. The first words I heard when I woke this morning. Words like these can be found in Daniel 5:27. You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; Addressed to King Belshazzar, God says " you have not humbled your heart....And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. Belshazzar decided to have a party using vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem. The fingers of a hand appeared on a wall before him writing these words on a wall. You have been found wanting. It says the Kings countenace changed, his throughts troubled him and his knees knocked together. Best believed he was scared to death. He called upon Daniel for an interpretion. And that very nite he was slain. The consequence of His disrespect for the true God. For a Holy God. Who demands respect. It seems to me the same could be true of the church today. The church wants a little bit of God and a lot of the world. Lots of flash and special effects, lots of noise and bells and whistles. Sprinkled with brief clips of a word from God. Not too offensive, oh no. Not to convicting, they may go down the street. Not too damaging to their precious self esteem. Never condemning or prehaps they'd leave. The church has lost it's backbone. And in the process condemns not only itself but all those who it cheats out of the truth of the gospel message. We are fallen, miserable creatures, tainted through and through, with sin from birth, evil from our youth, incapable of coming before a Holy, Righteous maker who demands perfection--Holiness to approach Him. For without Holiness no one will see God. (Heb. 12:14) People hold on to their pasts proclaiming they need not give up anything to believe. Their eyegate still a cesspool of worldy sites and sounds. Glorifying in music of that which appeals to the baser instincts including lustful affections, perverted desires and rebellion against authority. It's okay, it doesn't affect me, I can live with it. Jeremiah penned the heart is deceitful above all things. The heart lies ...because you want to be lied to. The heart is desperately wicked who can know it. People want to hear that they're okay. Oh, you won't be judged. God is a God of love. He'll love you no matter what. Well God has said the time has come for judgement to begin at the house of God. Character matters. Now if the righteous one is scarely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? For the wages of sin is death. There is a way that seems right to a man (or woman) and the end of it leads to death. Sobering words for a world lost within itself. For a church lost not wishing to offend the world. Consumed within the the grasp for money, power and fame. Jesus said they have their reward. But it is fleeing like a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. (James 4:14) The marque has proclaimed "Coming Soon, A new heavens and new earth in which righteousnes dwells." Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. ( 1 Cor. 15:50) The old order of things will pass away. Jesus Christ, came down from heaven, God's one and only Son, who being in very nature God, came in the likeness of a man, humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross. (Phil 2:5-11) He did it for us because only perfection will do. The one who was in the beginning with God and was God. He became flesh and dwelt among us. To save us from the wrath to come and open the portals of heaven that we may go it by the blood of His cross. For God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2Cor5:21) Righteous is a prerequisite for heavenly habitation. His is the only way. All other paths only lead to destructon and despair. All other paths only lead to eternal condemnation. "I Am the way, the truth and the life. No one come to the Father except by me." (John 14:6)