The bill you could never pay

Have you ever opened a bill and felt your stomach drop?

You see the number, and your first thought is: there is no way I can afford this.

That’s exactly the image Paul uses in Romans 6:23. He says the wages of sin is death. It’s a debt we’ve all run up - and one we simply cannot pay on our own. Sin doesn’t just lead to physical death. It means spiritual separation from God, both now and for ever. That’s a heavy thing to sit with.

But Paul doesn’t leave us there. In the same breath, he writes: but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. The debt is real. But someone else has settled it - in full. That’s what the resurrection means. What looked like total defeat on Good Friday became glorious victory on Easter Sunday.

And here’s what I find genuinely life-changing about this: eternal life doesn’t start when we die. It starts now. It reshapes how we face fear, how we grieve, how we love people, and how we spend our days.

This week, I shared five practical ways to live differently because death has been defeated - from refusing to live in fear, to finding real comfort when grief is raw, to celebrating those small moments when God brings hope out of pain.

If that’s something you need today, the full devotional is on YouTube. I’d love for you to watch it.

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Because Jesus lives, so do we.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/what-to-do-when-life-squeezes-you?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true