PAYDAY SOMEDAY

Do you look forward to payday?

When I was a little girl I use to mow my Aunt Dorothy’s grass.  She had an electric mower and I would loop the extension cord over my shoulder so I wouldn’t run the cord over. The black electrical tape on the cord was a testament to the fact I was not always successful in that endeavor. It was hard work, as I am vertically challenged so was pushing the handle almost over my head. But it was worth every hot sweaty moment because I knew when I was finished there would be a payday!  Oh the things that money would buy me. I wish her grass would grow faster, because I knew I would be paid for all I did.

Life is the same way. There will be a payday for all we do at the end of our life. The question is, what will that payday afford you? We need to realize we will be held accountable for everything we do here on earth while we labor for our final reward, or Payday, if you will. What will your bank draft look like? Well, mine is going to be worth all the hard, though often misguided, labor. I am drawing my payday on the bank of heaven. Where the streets are made of gold so I know my check will never bounce. For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life! Romans 6:23

As parents we need to teach our children there is consequences for their actions. Good deeds will garner a reward, but for bad behavior there will be a punishment. Don’t sugarcoat the realities of life. Give them good council from the Bible to insure their final payday!

We as writers often have our characters pay heavy tolls for their actions. After all it is the reality that sells the story.  What is your reality?

 

And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

I John 1:4-10

 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

John 8:24