STANDING BEFORE HIM
Today's reading:  Ecclesiastes 11-12

"God will judge us for everything we do, including every secret thing, whether good or bad."  Ecclesiastes 12:14 NLT

Does that scare the liver out of you?

Oh, I've always known I will one day stand before God and give an account, well let's be honest--I'll stand before Him and listen to His report on my life, because there would be several pages of things I'd choose to omit from the conversation.

But this isn't as much for me about what I've done or not done, it's about my attitude.

My attitude is that 'secret thing'.  That area I think I'm withholding from God, my Christian brothers and sisters and the world.  The part of me I hold back, cover up or mask.  The part of myself I 'deny' as I go about doing, or not doing, what I know I should or shouldn't. 

I'd like to think I hide it as well as I believe I do.  I'd like to think it's not a constant exercise in self-control.  I'd like to think it's a temptation of mine that's well under control.  I'd like to think it's not written all over my face in the form of a grimace, a smirk or a raised eyebrow of contempt.

I'd like to think all that--or I did until I read today's passage of Scripture and realized my attitude, too, needs to be covered by the blood of Christ.