I must realize, Lord, that the only record of my life that exists is the one I write myself. I see now what the judgment seat of Christ is—only a playback. It is there we receive “the things done in [this] body [our earthly life],” not simply the reward of those things (2 Corinthians 5:10, KJV).
I will meet my action again, like a rerun movie. But this time I will see them from God’s standpoint, how they were recorded in His eye and ear. There can be no addition to, or subtraction from, what I was and did. The books of God (Malachi 3:16) are nothing more than His retrieval system. Lord, Your eye and ear remember everything! My “examination day” will be only my rereading day, and You will show me the daily pages written with my own life. There is a sense in which heaven and hell are now, right here. Not in the sense of fulfillment, but in the sense of possibility. My destiny is not decided later, in eternity, but now while I live on this earth. The destiny is only the echo of my present decision.
Also, not only destiny itself, but the quality of that destiny is decided here, whether stubble or precious stones (1 Corinthians 3:12).
Lord, what a responsibility! Only one walk through life and yet an eternity depending on it! How glad I am for my gracious Forerunner, who first removed my sins by His Calvary work and who promises to walk in me and beside me to help me. He wants to help me write the story of my life, which one day will cause Him to smile. After all, Jesus is in the business of producing “approved” saints! He wants to be able to say to me. “Well done … faithful servant: … enter… the joy of thy lord” (Matthew 25:21, KJV).
“You therefore, beloved. knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness” (2 Peter 3:17).
Daily with the King 