The Bottom LIne

DEVOTIONS
ROMANS
THE BOTTOM LINE
Rom 6:19-23
19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. NIV
In the business world companies concern themselves with the bottom line, which is the end result of profit for the sum of energy expended. Others have certainly said you will reap whatever you sow, using the farmer as their example. Now the application arrives for my own being, as outlined in the last portion of chapter 6. The old self, having been a slave to sin was receiving its fare due, it’s bottom line for the energy expended, death. For most people in that condition it would seem not a very good deal. Death does not appear to be the best bottom line for the life of any person. I believe most individuals spend a great deal of time, energy and money in an effort to achieve some level of fame and fortune within the span of their life time, yet if in the condition of the “old self, a slave to sin, their bottom line is death. When I turned away from sin, and turned to God, and if any others do that as well, then the bottom line changes dramatically and the profit margin has increased beyond the ability to count. Who can count the profit of eternal life? Who actually knows the extent of eternal life? Who can fathom the magnitude, the enormity of such a thing as eternal life? However, one thing I know for sure, it outweighs death by so much there could not be a scale large enough to balance the difference, nor a calculator big enough to figure the number, and in a world so consumed with the best possible bottom line, why wouldn’t anyone choose eternal life over death? I am certainly glad I did!