Psalm 1:4-5

     4 Not so the wicked!

          They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 

     5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

          nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.  (NIV)

The prophet Hosea may have been thinking of this Psalm when he said, "They sins more and more... therefore they will be like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping from a window" (Hosea 13:2,3). Chaff is the stuff left over when grain is beaten so that the good kernel of wheat can be removed. The farmer tosses everything into the air, and as the good kernels fall back down the light and useless chaff is blown away by the wind. On Judgment Day, God will sort the believers from the unbelievers, leaving no one in the middle. We are either Christ's followers or we aren't, and those who aren't will be sent away into hell.

A person shows his faith with the confession of his mouth and the confession of his life. He proclaims who his God is by what he says and does. He embraces the cross, or he rejects it. And so on the Last Day, "each person was judged acccording to what he had done... If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:13, 15).

So we hang on to Jesus. Because of Jesus, there will no longer be any curse (Rev. 22:3). As Jesus threshes mankind, we will keep on falling down at his feet. Our tears will be dried, our troubles will be over, our sins will be forgotten and forgiven, and we will have peace.