Years ago I was trying to help a young person prepare for their exams here in Ireland. I felt like I was pretty proficient in simple accounting and bookkeeping.
But then saw the old Irish system. It required three books to keep track of accounts (if I remember it correctly). There was a credit book, a debit book, and a balance book. The goal was to, of course, us the balance book to line up the other two books. It was quite confusing and I really never figured it out.
When it comes to eternity it seems like a lot of folks are trying to do something even more difficult. They are trying to balance out their debit (sin) book with their credit (good works) book and hoping it will all balance out in their balance book so that they can find their way into heaven. Try as one might there is no way to achieve that balance, the debit book can never be balanced with the credits and the balance book will always be lacking.
But there is a book when things balance out. In the Lamb’s Book of Life the debits are all paid. Jesus paid the debt in full. In His book Jesus paid it all and only those written in His book are assured of eternity. We don’t serve God because we are trying to fill up the credit book, we do it because our names are already written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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