There is one word in scripture that people do not like to hear and that is judgment. We fear what we do not understand. Judgment is not condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, it is recompense, it is restitution, it is deliverance. The very word we fear is the very word we need. We need God to render a judgment on behalf of the saints.

I was praying with Psalm 50 this morning and it says, “Here he comes to judge his people! He summons his court with heaven and earth as his jury, saying, Gather all my devoted lovers, my godly ones whose hearts are one with me— those who have entered into my holy covenant by sacrifices upon the altar. And the heavens declare his justice: God himself will be their judge, and he will judge them with righteousness!”

Courtroom scenes in scripture are more common than most of us realize, because we serve a God of justice and He is Judge of the whole earth. The challenge is we view the Judge as one who will cause us harm rather than help us. Jesus shares a story of an unjust judge who did not render a correct verdict for a widow in Luke 18. Our God loves justice and He sits as judge in order to render a verdict on our behalf.

As I prayed Psalm 50 the presence of God wafted into the room and overwhelmed me as I said, “Judge me, O God!” First I was afraid of what that would mean, but as I sat in His presence, the fear turned to favor as the presence of God rendered a judgment on my behalf. His gavel hit the judges bench with a verdict that liberates, exonerates and penetrates everything inside of me.

Friends, the Judge is for you not against you, but you must stand before His bench and in authenticity ask Him to judge you. You will be overwhelmed and probably surprised by what the Judge decrees. But you won’t know Him as Judge who is for you until you stand in front of Him as Judge of you. Enter His courtroom, there are cases He wants to try but you must be present to hear the verdict.