'Payment Is On The Way'

I recently read about a customer who sent an order to a book club for the book they were offering that month. The distributor noticed that the bill for a previous book hadn't been paid.

The collections manager sent a form letter saying, "We can't ship your new order until you pay for the last one."

The collections manager received a note a few days later, "Please cancel the order. I can't wait that long."

We live in a world where people expect to receive merchandise without paying for it, at least for a long, long time.

That's why credit cards have become so popular. You don't need to have money. Just hand them that little piece of plastic. The bill will come later? 

You can worry about it then. A popular form of advertising says, "Buy now, no payments for six months!" or "No payments until January!" 

Companies know that we are more likely to buy something if the payment can be put off because if the deadline is far enough away, we won't think about the future and the hardship it may cause.

Satan operates in a similar same way. If he can convince us that the consequences of sin will not be experienced for a long, long time (if at all), then we will be more likely to give in and enjoy the pleasures of those sins.

Solomon put it like this: "Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." (Ecclesiastes 8:11)

The reality is that credit card bills eventually arrive in the mail, businesses eventually expect us to pay for all merchandise that we take home with us, and in the same way, sin will eventually have its consequences.

"Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God." (Ecclesiastes 8:12-13)

Don't let Satan deceive you. You will pay some day for how you have lived.
It may be sooner than later, but it will surely come.
God bless...