“Incredible!”

Give me just a moment

To explain what I mean,

 I won’t be too long

Let’s reflect on this scene.

A creature: the judge

Other creatures: the jury

The Creator is on trial

For claiming Divinity.

He declares he is God

While posing as His Son,

What are his credentials?

Surely there are none.

The people were blind

Not physically so,

They just closed their eyes

To the facts we all know.

In the Old Testament

That they claimed to know

Were prophecies concerning Jesus

And they clearly showed.

In the New Testament

We have been assured

That he will judge the world

By his Holy Word.

The Father has put such

Into His begotten Son’s hand,

He is the Righteous Judge

This is God’s divine plan.

So how ironic it was

For mere men to judge him

And then had the audacity

To even accuse him of sin.

The ecclesiastical Gurus

Would you believe it

That they accused God’s Son

Of a blasphemous spirit?

This did not go well

With the Roman official

So other charges were brought

To convict this criminal.

He was a revolutionary

And he encouraged tax evasion,

He was a threat to Caesar

Formed their final submission.

A miscarriage of justice

What else could it be?

But these were a religious people

Too blind to see

That before them stood

The Righteous Judge,

So blind they had become

They wouldn’t even budge.

Quite in fitting I must add

Though ironically so,

They were following the plan

And they didn’t even know.

A mystery it would have been

To the unfocused eye

Such that even today

This same Judge we still deny.

Incredible I say

That to the world’s judgment hall

The Righteous Judge of this world

Was by summons called

Then tried and sentenced

To death on a cross,

At first glance it would appear

To be a colossal loss.

But God in his eternal wisdom

Turned loss into gain

And through the death of Jesus

Promised life in his name.

  

For one day coming

Will be another judgment hall

And everyone that ever lived

Will by summons be called.

What we have done with Jesus

Will be the basis of that court

And to this same Jesus

One and all must report.

That too will be incredible

But make no mistake

No one that denies the Righteous Judge

Will be able to escape.

“Incredible!” I say

“Incredible!” I mean,

On that great judgment day

Will be an incredible scene!

Stewart Russell (c) April 2019