Sooner or Later

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities." 
                  -Sir Josiah Stamp-

This is a hard lesson for us. In everyday vernacular, we either pay now or pay later. We either do the right thing now or we face the consequences later.

The practice to "Buy now and pay later" has gotten our culture into a lot of trouble.

Total U.S. revolving debt is $793.1 billion, 98 percent of which is made up of credit card debt. Total U.S. consumer debt: $2.43 trillion, as of May 2011

Average credit card debt per household with credit card debt: $15,799.

Credit card debt, which is the usual 'buy now/pay later' tool, remains the most frequent type of consumer debt. (Source: Federal Reserve's G.19 report on consumer credit, July 2011) Many of us are feeling the consequences of past decisions.

Robert Louis Stevenson had another way to explain this:

"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

'A banquet of consequences.' - What is on our dinner table tonight?

"Do not be deceived:  

Galatians 6:7

What we are doing to our future - our eternal future - is even more important.

Are we saying to God, "Let me do what I want now and I'll be good when I am old."

Matthew 12:35-37 "The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

Now is the time for us to consider the invitation of Jesus Christ to come to HIS BANQUET, to sit as HIS TABLE and to feast with HIM in HEAVEN. He is waiting for our RSVP.

"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts.  

if they're not, he'll suffer for it." - Harry Browne  

Sitting at the Banquet Table of Consequences,