We get out what we’ve put in.
We’ve heard that. It’s an axiom we try to live by. If we want to run the marathon, we must spend some time on the treadmill. Win the lottery? We must buy a ticket first. A good marriage takes care and consideration. A top-notch investment is built on research and oversight.
There it is. We get out what we put in.
That applies to the opposite side of things, also. We spend our paycheck carelessly, and we skirt bankruptcy. Drug use can turn us into an addict. Too many cupcakes? We’re soon trying on a larger pant size.
Yet some people say God wouldn’t send anyone to a place of judgment and fiery death.
Hebrews 10:26-27 reveals a deeper truth:
“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”
It’s important to read this pair of verses in the context of modern day living. If we spend our paycheck carelessly, if we continue to consume drugs, if we overindulge, if we go on sinning… Do we get it? If we keep putting sin into our lives, we should expect what we reap. In the natural, we earn bankruptcy, drug dependency, or a cumbersome girth. We earn those things because we’ve worked hard to achieve them.
The same is true with our spiritual destination. If we go on sinning… There it is again. If we go on sinning, then we should expect our final outcome once we step through to the other side of death’s door. We will have a fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume us.
The sinner’s final destination isn’t a wicked curse from an uncaring God, just as our pant size isn’t God’s curse on our life. It’s too many cupcakes, no more and no less. We should expect the result we get. We should understand that we will get out exactly what we put in, with our money, our body, and our spiritual future. We get to choose.
Let’s get on the treadmill, win the lottery, and remember that our spiritual future is in our hands. We will get out of our Christian experience exactly what we put in.
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