Is it time to settle your tab?
A practice in bars across America is called the tab. Owners of bars, for trusted customers, will sometimes allow them to set up a tab and charge drinks and food to that tab throughout the evening to be settled at the end of business, that day!
In the book of Romans in the scripture it is written that “all have fallen short of the glory of God”, in other words everyone has sinned against God by not obeying His laws and His instructions for living. It also says that death is the wages of sin. That’s the bad news, we all are condemned since all of us. have sinned against God. There is good news though, God loved us so much that He gave His only son to die on the cross to pay our sin debt. To receive that forgiveness we need to confess our sins, repent, (be genuinely sorry for our actions), and accept Christ as our Savior and ask for His forgiveness!
So keeping with my illustration at the start; We have a a tab we can pay and God is the Bar owner and, living in perilous times, we don’t know when the bar is closing, so it might be the right time to settle our tab. After all we can’t settle things after the doors are closed. Are you willing to take that risk!?
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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Boss, being Catholic, it is why I make sure I head to confession and examine my conscience regularly. Today at Mass I had the thought you just did. I was looking at the many things I need to clean up, and realizing how much Divine Mercy I will really need to close the tab for my deeds here on earth. God Bless partner!
I wrote a blog entry just two days ago about how God refines us in fire…I think it is to make sure we pay up along the way!
https://www.capturinghisglory.com/blog
Most feel like the bar will be open for years to come – no sense in “settling up” now. Problem is, no one really know when the bar will close on one’s life. And if the account is not settled up when your bar closes, then you must go to court, Court for “un-paid accounts” is severe and everlasting – the one place no one wants to be. Constantly keeping one’s “bar tab” paid up is critical to the journey here on earth.