Our Judge

John 5: 22, 27

For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son.

And He gave Him (the Son) authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

God the Father has given to Jesus to be the Judge of the Earth. And not just the Earth but the whole Universe. Why?

All three Persons participated in the Creation, so is (are) the Owner(s). 

Now the Son, the Second Person of the Godhead, has become Man, and bought us with His precious Blood, so we belong to Him by purchase, also. That's why Jesus has all authority to judge.

And those He has redeemed, He has taken upon Himself the wrath due each of us; so those who belong to Him by faith will face Him as Judge for rewards only (the Bema seat, I Corinthians 3:10-15). 

All the rest will face His Justice for all the evil that has deceived them, and drawn them away from what is Good. They will suffer the wrath that sin brings (the Great White Throne, Revelation 20:11-13). 

God takes no pleasure in the death of a wicked person (Ezekiel 18:32; 33:11), because that person has no more opportunity to turn away from wickedness to embrace God's Love, which is what He would much rather they do. 

We are all responsibie for all our choices, even when we think we have no choice but to do what we do. We just don't recognize the alternative, to do what's right. So we all will give an account for even every word that we say (Matthew 12:36-37). And especially our choice to accept or reject that we deserve the Death Jesus died for each of us to save us from the power of sin and death and deception. 

O Father, thank You so much for sending Your own Son, my Lord, Christ Jesus, to be my substitute in Death so that You could give me Your Spirit to live in my spirit, making it alive; now I can communicate with You. Teach me to listen closely for Your quiet voice in my spirit, leading me into the path You want me to take. 

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!