"they WILL give an account"

1 Peter 4:3-5                             (ESV)

"3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;

5 but "they WILL give account" to HIM who is ready to judge the living and the dead."

There are times when it appears those who live their life according to their worldly, selfish desires have everything going there way.  The live in the nicest houses, drive the fanciest cars, wear the best fashions, and basically experience little difficulty in their life!  There seems to be little time or concern in their life for anything eternal.  Living a life of parties and laughter seems to be the thing they are most concerned with.

Having your EYES OPENED to the fact that this physical life is NOT where it all begins and ends can be a humbling thing!  Knowing that everything WILL be judged one day makes me think more carefully about my current day actions.  Life is woefully short and the enemy will try to keep our focus on the temporal earthly things.  But in verse 4 above scripture says they are surprised when we do not join them in their revelry.   WHY???

There is a day when "they WILL give an account" to a BEING far more powerful than they realize.  It has been said the most dreadful words ever to be spoken are the words "I never knew you, DEPART from ME"!!  When they have to weigh their "good times" against the suffering of JESUS and realize that they have been deceived, scripture says there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth! 

The great deceiver has always given a false perception of reality.  Ever since the Garden of Eden when he told Eve "you will not surely die" and Eve couldn't "SEE" REALITY.  Most of mankind has failed to comprehend that we are "made in HIS image".  John 4:24 says "GOD is Spirit"!  We get so busy with the physical aspects of living that we tend to neglect the Spiritual!  But one day, when "they WILL give account", the time of busyness and deception will be over!  My prayer is that you have SEEN the TRUTH!