Hosea 13
BIG SPENDERS
If credit cards are used well, they are a great tool. But when they become a tool to get what we want, when we want it, and the debt starts to stack up, they can become our worst nightmare. A few dollars here, a few dollars there, let’s update the curtains, put fuel in the car for that long trip, and while we are out let’s celebrate with a fancy meal at an upper-class restaurant… Each use of the card stacks up the debt, and with the huge interest rates credit card companies charge, we are soon out of our depth through spending much more than our income. So instead of owning a credit card, the credit card company owns us.
The same thing happens with unforgiven sin. Hosea said of Israel, “The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.” (Hosea 13 v 12 ESV).
Like spending on a credit card, Ephraim was loaded up on their sin account. Instead of fun, sin became an addiction and the interest rate so high that the cost became death and destruction. (v 14).
We all sin, but let’s not load up our sin account. Let’s do all we can to live lives that please God. And let’s remember to repent and ask God for forgiveness in order to wipe our account clean.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us this weekend.
With love in our Lord,
Robert
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