The Bill Comes Due

In the 2016 motion picture Doctor Strange, a rigid character named Mordo observes that rule-breaking will always come back to bite us. “The bill comes due,” he famously says. While Mordo is overly righteous, the point is true in general. Our sin and carelessness will inevitably bear fruit in our lives and in the lives of those around us. To think of this can be a remedy against temptation.

However, what do we do when our lives are riddled with failure to obey God perfectly? While we may have to suffer various earthly consinquences for our transgressions, our great hope in Christ is that he himself has paid the bill which comes due before God. To be a Christian is to have the amazing hope that Jesus has paid for our sins, every single one, with his blood. So when Satan reminds us that the bill comes due, let us reply that indeed it does, and indeed it has. Paid in full is how it reads now. Hallelujah!