As thou hast done

WORDs of Saving Grace - as thou hast done

Obadiah 1:15  For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

To some who throughout their life who have been kind, honest, fair and compassionate to friends, family and neighbors this warning from the Lord may not seem to apply to them.

But God's standard of absolute perfection and righteousness can Only be attained through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ...

The fact is that good and kind people die everyday. And regardless of how good you have been you will die, for it is an appointment all men have.

Hebrews 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

"As thou hast done it shall be done unto thee" - if all we can count on when it is our time to die is what "thou hast done" how can we have any assurance of eternal life?

But if we trust in what our Lord Jesus has "finished" and already done we can have absolute assurance we have eternal life. For He is the Only one who has defeated the captivity of death.

John 11:25-26

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?