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“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12).
For many years I and several others went into the downtown of the city of Toronto, Ontario each Lord’s Day afternoon to visit in a “Detention Centre”. All the young people locked up in there were under 16 years of age, and all had committed serious crimes. It was a privilege to be able to speak to them about the Lord Jesus. On one visit I read this verse to them and asked them what it meant. Most of them did not know; they did not understand the words, and I had to explain it to them.
However, it is a most important verse, for it means that every one of us must answer to God for the way we have lived our lives, and this applies to believers and unbelievers. When we are guilty of doing something wrong, it is easy to try and blame someone else for it. When we are before God, however, we cannot do that. God knows all about us, and it is what we have done that matters, not what someone else has done. The Lord will take care of that other person, but we must answer for what we have done.
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