Years ago, we had a treasurer at church who was meticulous
in his accounting. One Sunday evening
after church, he was balancing the church books and my dad was helping
him. Brother Glen had a discrepancy of
7¢ and had worked for a half hour trying to find the problem. My dad said, “Glen, I’ll give you the 7¢ if
you’ll let us go home.” Brother Glen shook
his head, continued to scribble with his pencil, and said, “The point isn’t the
7¢. Something here doesn’t add up, and
I’m going to find it!” And he did. Hey, there is a difference between balancing
the books and juggling the books. And
with our sin, God makes careful notations and meticulous calculations. God can’t just let sin slide; sin must be
paid for. And Jesus Christ paid our sin
debt in full. But for the unrepentant,
there will be a final day of reckoning. John
said in Revelation 20:12, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before
God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book
of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the
books, according to their works.” Hey,
don’t try to juggle your sin books; let Jesus pay your debt in full. Only Jesus can make your sin book balance.
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