Our Walk (2 Corinthians 5:9-10)

"For this reason we also labor, whether present or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive according to the good or evil he has done [works] through the body." [JFA Revista e Atualizada] This passage has to do with our lives in general.

Mr. Kelly showed in his writings that the "all of us" in this verse has a different construction in Greek from the "all of us" in 2 Corinthians 3:18. Here it is so broad that it includes unbelievers, whereas there it is strictly to believers. Unbelievers will receive for the things they did through their bodies, which are "evil." Believers will receive for the things they did through their bodies, which are "good."

The "works done through the body" would include all those practiced in our entire life, even before we were saved. Someone questioned this at a Bible reading meeting years ago, thinking that it could only involve our lives after we were saved. But brother Brown said, "That speaks of the works 'done through the body.' Were we in our bodies before we were saved? Yes, we were." An examination of our entire lives (our sins and everything else) is necessary to exalt the grace of God before our eyes. It will also be necessary for the Lord to review our entire lives to reveal His tender care over us, even before we were saved. Everything that happened to us in our lives is part of His training in His school.

The lesson for us here is to understand that only what is done for the Lord will continue to exist in the kingdom of God. This should make every sensible Christian re-evaluate his life and seek, from this moment on, to live more for Christ and less for himself. We cannot do anything about the "past time" in our lives, but we can do something about the "time that remains to us" (1 Peter 4:2-3).

Only one life, which soon will pass.

Only what was done for Christ, that will remain.