PAYBACK IS COMING

PAYBACK IS COMING

Col. 3:25 But if you do what is wrong, you will be paid back for the wrong you have done. For God has no favorites who can get away with evil.  NLT

        Everyone stands on equal ground before God.  He does not care who you are, what you do, what you have accomplished in life, what your wealth or influence may be, or what stature you may have with man.  Each one of us is personally responsible for how we live our lives.  No one will get away with sin.

      We must recognize and accept this truth.  We live in a day in which we put people on pedestals.  We are quick to ignore or condone sin in the lives of our leaders.  We seldom challenge them on how they are living out the faith.  We don’t like to stick our noses into other people’s personal lives and convince ourselves somehow that it’s none of our business. 

       Or, we may go to the other extreme and get way too nosey.  Some of us may always look for faults or sins to expose.  Some will hold leaders to a much higher standard than they themselves are living or are willing to live.

       God shows no favoritism.  We are all held up to the high standards of God’s Word.  No one will get away with anything.  We will reap what we sow as we stand before God in judgment.  We will be defenseless as we hear God tell us our destiny.  God knows the heart.  Each one will be judged on what He sees there. 

      Only those in whom Christ dwells will be found pleasing and acceptable to God and where Christ dwells there is righteousness and holiness lived out daily.