In this season of Advent as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it i s often forg otten that the season is a sharp reminder that Jesus will come one day 'to judge the quick [l iving] and the dead' (old form of Apostles' Cre ed) . The Creed draws th ese words and idea from a t least f our different scriptures of general judgement ( Acts 10.42; Rom 14.9,12; 2Tim 4.1) plus two scriptures on the specific judgement of Christians (2Cor 5.10; Jas 5.9). We recoil at that thought that we Christians will be judge d but scripture makes this clear beyond dispute.
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen --Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles