Tag: 2 Corinthians 5:10

Don’t waste the dash between your birth and your death

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NELSON NOLAND

Life is short, and how a person spends it matters more than most people pause to consider. The writer of Ecclesiastes makes this point through vivid images of the body wearing down, sight dimming, hearing fading, strength leaving, sleep slipping away. These pictures aren’t meant to depress; they’re meant to be honest. The message is clear: don’t wait until life is giving out to start living for something that lasts. The word “remember” carries more weight than occasional reflection. It means to pay full attention with the intention of actually obeying. Seek what matters most, and seek it early, before the days come when you look back wishing you had.

The book also questions whether life has any real meaning at all. The writer’s answer: a life apart from God is hollow, a lamp with no flame. But a life built around God is anything but empty. Scripture is presented not as a dry rulebook but as an anchor, something to hang your life on when everything else shifts. It prods like a goad and holds steady like a nail driven into solid wood. In a world of competing opinions and endless self-help advice, the writer tells us that none of that searching ever brings a person to firm ground. Only a word from God himself can do that.

The real danger isn’t living a wild or obviously wasted life. It’s living a respectable, comfortable life that never aimed at anything eternal.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:10

The Judgment Seat and the Value of Our Works

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JEFF TURNER

In 2 Corinthians 5:10, Paul teaches that every believer will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to be repaid for what was done in life, whether good or bad. This does not mean Christians will face God’s punishment. Scripture is clear that Jesus took the full penalty for sin through his death, bearing the judgment we deserved. Consider Romans 8:1 says, “Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

The word “bad” in this passage comes from a term meaning useless or without value. At this future judgment, worthless deeds, those with no eternal importance, will be set aside. These are not sinful acts, but activities that hold no lasting spiritual impact.

What will remain are the righteous works God has produced in us. These will form the basis of our eternal reward. This truth calls believers to focus on what matters for eternity, investing time and effort in works that honour Christ rather than in things that will pass away.

…each one’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each one’s work. If anyone’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3:13–14

The Certain Return of Christ and the Call to Prepare

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AMY TURNER

The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus Christ will one day return to the earth. Revelation 1:7 tells us that he will come with the clouds, and every person will see him — including those responsible for his death. People from every nation will mourn when this happens because it will mark the moment of final judgement.

This event will be public and undeniable. Christ will not return in secret or as a distant idea. His coming will be visible and real, and it will affect every human being. No one will be able to avoid this moment. We’re told in 2 Corinthians 5:10, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”

Doesn’t knowing this truth call for a serious response from each of us?

because He has set a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all people by raising Him from the dead.”

Acts 17:31