The Signature Makes All The Difference
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★★When you visit London, tourists are often taken by their guides to the Royal Mint, where the British pound is minted. (Royalty visits that London mint from time to time, and they take even top royal guests there.) There you can see a magnificent balance scale, where they weigh out British money. When the guide takes you through, he takes two pieces of paper and puts them on the scale, one in each pan.....and the scale is so even, so delicately balanced, it doesn’t move.
Then he takes a piece of paper from one of the pans, and he writes his signature on that piece of paper. Then he puts it back on the scale, and immediately (that scale is so delicate!) the scale with the guide’s signature goes way down, and the other pan goes up!
The signature of the guide makes all the difference. In the judgment, it’s not good deeds against bad deeds, friend --- it’s whether the signature of Jesus is after your name.
No matter how many times you have failed, no matter how many times you have fallen short, Jesus says, ‘Come to Me. Let Me represent you in the judgment.’ Jesus says that we are living in the last days --- this is no time for fooling around!
The point
In judgment, what matters is Christ's endorsement of our name, not tallying good deeds against bad deeds.
