Song of the Bow Part 2

# 412 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 2Sa 1:19 "The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! (2 Sam 1:19) This is the first verse of the “Song of the Bow” which was David's lamentation at the news of the death of King Saul and David's bosom buddy, Jonathan. He starts out by referring King Saul as “the beauty of Israel.” This should take us back to 1Sa 9:2 and the description given of Saul, “And he had a choice and handsome son whose name was Saul. There was not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.” But as handsome as Saul was, and as large as his physical statue was, he fell. Try as we may, we cannot avoid the fact that death comes to the lowly and the mighty alike. Ec 9:2,3, says, “All things come alike to all: One event happens to the righteous and the wicked; To the good, the clean, and the unclean; To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.” We all go to the dead. Heb 9:27 says, “ And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,” (The word “judgment here means “decision.” and by extension it means tribunal.) The question for each of us is this. How will the Triune God decide in our individual case. Will the tribunal decide for eternal life with God and His goodness, or eternal separation and total absence of good? Will it be heaven or hell? By what standard will we be judged? Will it be by our good deeds or by the deeds of Jesus? Friend, you and I need to know this before death comes knocking on our door. How can we know our fate before that Day? Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you the meaning of these words spoken by Jesus in Joh 12:48, "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him--the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” Father, give us a sense of urgency regarding eternity, grant faith to the faithless today.