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| These rocks were a short walk from the King's Cross District in Sydney. Fighting the strong undertow to get back to them was a real "rock/hard place" dilemma. |
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We’re all familiar with that place between a rock and a hard place. We’ve all been there or thought we’ve been there, only to discover the rock wasn’t that big nor the place that hard.
Matters
turned out to be not that serious. Stakes were found to be not that high.
Consequences we realized were not that consequential.
This got me to thinking about a real “between a rock and a hard place” moment. One that might be experienced by God, the ultimate judge, as individuals stand before Him awaiting judgement.
In the case
of most people, He can probably perform this task with His eyes closed, conceding
for the moment that He can probably perform every task with His eyes closed, or
might not even have any eyes. Nevertheless, it is His job to put everyone
somewhere and it can’t always be easy.
Ordinarily, you’d
think He’d take this “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” decision in
stride. The Bible is dog-gone specific in terms of what we can and cannot do. After
all, He is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-just and as far as we know, up all
night. So nothing is getting past him.
