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Judgment!
Spurgeon, "Unsound Spiritual Trading" #849
"All a man's ways seem innocent to him.
But motives are weighed by the Lord."
Proverbs 16:2.
There is a propensity in human nature
which leads men, even when they are
most wrong, to judge themselves most right.
Each man thinks each man guilty, but himself.
The judgment of man concerning himself is
not final, and there comes a day when the
Lord who weighs the motives will reverse
the verdict of a perjured conscience, and
make the man to stand no longer in the
false light which his conceit has thrown
around him, but in the true light, in which
all his fancied merit shall vanish as a dream.
Conscience is now placed in connection
with a depraved nature, which forbids
its accurate judgment.
The laws of God stand sternly and inflexibly
the same, and if we deviate from the right
way through this false judgment of ours,
we shall be none the less guilty, and we
shall find our fate to be terrible.
However well you may cajole yourselves with
the idea that your way is right and innocent,
yet the inevitable judgment day will come to
end all delusions, however pleasant.
The Lord, who weighs the motives, will make
short work of these bubbles; he will unmask
the impostors, smash to pieces these shams,
and leave the man to cry out and weep and
wail among dragons and the fiends.
"All a man's ways seem innocent to him.
But motives are weighed by the Lord."
Proverbs 16:2.
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