Court Dismissed

I often play a game on my phone called Words with Friends (it’s almost the same as scrabble). I find it really relaxing and I enjoy the challenge with friends.

 

The other day, an opponent played the word gavel. This is not a word I hear very often, so it made me think. I thought about how the gavel is a very significant tool in a courtroom.

 

A judge holds the gavel and slams it down on his bench signifying closure or finality in a court case. When the gavel sounds all other sounds cease. There is nothing left to be argued, defended or proven!

 

That little wooden hammer, as it were, in the hand of the right person, represents a remarkable amount of authority and closure!

 

This got me thinking about God’s word. It’s just like a gavel. Once it was spoken it became the final authority and sound ever needed to be heard by man. The sound that came forth from God’s mouth and became the living breathing word of God was a banging gavel, bringing closure!

 

So many times in my life I have argued back and forth with the Lord…tried to win my case, fight for my cause and defend my rights.  Other times I have listened to lies. I have believed things that I have been charged with, and fallen victim to false accusations and believed all of the enemies charges against me!!

 

Indeed, at times, there was enough “beyond a shadow of a doubt” proof, and my accuser could have presented enough evidence to condemn and convict me, but none of it really mattered. All that mattered was the final word! The last statement issued by the judge of my life.  His verdict silences all others. His authority supersedes every accusation and offense my enemy can conjure up!

 

His word screams that I am forgiven! His word echoes over and over…”WHOM THE SON SETS FREE IS FREE INDEED!” And His strong grasp on the falling gavel obliterates EVERY SINGLE sin!

 

Once the gavel slams the bench, and the final authority has rung out, all accusers lose! ALL enemies are scattered and the chains that bind are broken! HALLELUJAH!

 

Listen to that sound? Can you hear it? The gavel has fallen. The word of God has gone forth and HE has had the last word!

 

COURT DISMISSED!

 

Written by: Jenn Fitch