Been a rough few days, allergies are kicking in as are my sinus headaches which act just like migraines.  Feeling better this morning.

Psalm 119:13-14  For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

I hear the cry of those aborted as they ask why?

I hear the response, you were not wanted, you were just an accident, you were not perfect, you were not the right sex, you were just a grouping of cells, a growth that had to be removed and the list goes on.

There are those that believe that if the child is not baptized, to wash away the original sin of Adam and Eve, it will be cast into the fiery hell where other unbelievers will abide forever.

I cannot accept that; there are many verses that reaffirms that God knows us as children in the womb and that we are innocent and free from the condemnation of sin.  Sin that only comes from our own free will, choices we make AFTER we have entered this world.

But, I really don’t think those aborted are hanging around on the outside of heaven – I believe that God has wrapped His arms around them and brought them home; just as He does with His children, through Christ, when they come before Him.

But there will be an accounting, as there is for all who have sinned, for the deaths of those children. 

In a criminal trial the defense can ask to have evidence removed and not made available to the jury.  It can be done for many reasons, it may have been obtained illegally or mishandled, it may be insufficient in its substance to prove it is involved with the crime, there are many reasons a judge may agree with the defendant’s request and once removed it is as if the evidence never existed and cannot be used by the prosecutor against the defendant.

Only the defendant or his attorney can decide if that evidence is submitted, and sometimes they make a mistake and allow it to be used – usually because they themselves mention it or it can be used to refute what a defendant claims on the stand.

The rules of evidence are not always clear cut and sometimes there is so much disagreement that the decision is submitted to higher courts to determine if it is allowable or not.

While similar in nature to going before the judgement seat of God, our courts allow excuses – the law is bad; the evidence, while properly taken is prejudicial to the defendant and can’t be used; witnesses are missing, lie or change their stories - to be used in the determination of how the trial will proceed.

Not the case with the trial of our eternal life.  EVERYTHING we do is subject to exploration and condemnation by our accusers – satan and his minions.  There is nothing to hide behind, no excuse will be accepted by the Judge, the Lord our God.

Every sin, no matter how trivial, no matter how long ago it was committed is laid out before God; and then the judgement.

Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

In our court systems an attorney can make the difference in whether or not a defendant is found guilty.  There are some clever attorneys who manipulate the system, there are some who are able to find where evidence or testimony is tainted in some way, there are some who just don’t understand what is happening and do not represent the defendant very well.

As people are different, so are attorneys, but they are the ones that present the case to the judge or challenge the case in front of the judge.

But in the case of going before the Judgement Seat of God, we either have Jesus as our attorney or we have NO ATTORNEY at all.

John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Through Christ we have redemption and the promise of God that He will NOT hold our sins against us if we accept Christ as Savior.  He is the only advocate allowed in God’s court and He has to be chosen while we are here on earth.

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

But when we choose Christ, we choose our salvation and our sins are forgiven and not held against us.

Psalm 103:11-13 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

No matter our sins, large – murder, robbery, etc. – or small, stealing a cookie or lying – God has forgotten them.

Later, Art :-)