You Pay at the End … Unless

(picture by Joanne Shennan – used with permission)

You Pay at the End … Unless

I took my daughter to drop off her cat for grooming at a grooming facility.

The grooming would take a couple of hours so I offered to take her out for lunch.

As we settled into my car I asked her casually, “Have you paid them yet?”

“No, Dad,” she replied, “you only pay at the end, when the job is finished.”

The phrase stuck in my brain: “You only pay at the end.”

“Just like life,” I responded, “you may not always have to pay for a life of sin in the here and now, but you will always have to pay at the end.”

In one way or another, the debt for sin will have to be paid. “The wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23)

After a moment of silence I added, “Unless…”

“Unless what?”

“Unless you have been redeemed and the price for sin has already been paid by the blood of Christ.”

And according to the Law, [one may] almost [say], all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Hebrews 9:22 – NASB)

…knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, [the blood] of Christ. (1 Peter 1:18-19 – NASB)

Jesus Paid it All

(© Sunday 23^rd November 2014 – by Christopher Shennan)

…knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, [the blood] of Christ. (1 Peter 1:18-19 – NASB)

I knew I had a debt of sin,

A debt I could not ever pay;

There was no coin except my death –

That, indeed, was the only way.

Not just death, but eternal woe

Would be my reward and my plague,

And there was nothing I could do

To ever wipe that debt away.

In terror I cried for mercy,

For I could not pay at the end.

Someone would have to pay for me

And come my broken soul to mend.

Then I heard the voice of Jesus;

It was so gentle strong and true,

“You won’t have to pay, dear pilgrim,

For I have paid it all for you.

“All you must do is believe it,

And follow Me all of your days;

My strength is yours to receive it,

And I’ll teach you all of My ways.

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