Payment Due

“Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;

and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”

James 1:15

I remember when I was younger I used to see a sign that seems to be very rare anymore.

It would be hung prominently in service establishments.

Places like car repair shops, barber shops and shoe repair shops.

It read:

“Payment Due When Services Rendered”

Obviously it was before the days of easy credit, debit cards and any other ways we may now use to defer payment.

You might say that we now are able to “postpone the pain of payment”.

Sin has consequences which are not always immediate.

The anger that is not confessed and repented of will only escalate.

The lies we tell eventually catch us in their trap.

The lust for ‘things’ can leave us void of a sense of those truly valuable treasures in our life.

Someone once advised; “Keep short books with God”.  

 Don’t allow the consequences of sin to grow in your life.

Instead be quick to bring those failures to God and ask for His forgiveness.

You see, the cross was payment for my sins.

The payment was actually made before I sinned.

  But rather than let the mole hill turn into a mountain we can nip it in the bud!

Sin does indeed have consequences but so does repentance.