Romans 14:11-12 For it is written, As I live, said the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.… Recollect, again, that your account will have to be particular. God will go into all the items of it. At the day of judgment you will not have to cast up a hurried account in the gross, but every item shall be read. Can you prove that? Yes. "For every idle word that man shall speak, he shall be brought into account at the day of judgment." Now, it is in the items that men go astray. "Well," says one, "if I look at my life in the bulk, I am not very much ashamed, but it is those items, those little items — they are the troublesome part of the account that one does not care to meddle with." Do you know that all yesterday was made up of littles? And the things of to-day are all little, and what you do to-morrow will all be little things. Just as the tiny shells make up the chalk hills, and the chalk hills together make up the range, so the trifling actions make up the whole account, and each of these must be pulled asunder separately. You had an hour to spare the other day — what did you do? You had a voice — how did you use it? You had a pen — you could use that — how did you employ it? Each particular shall be brought out, and there shall be demanded an account for each one. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. |
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