ON the posting stations in one of our large towns may have been seen, some time ago, a large placard, announcing a play at the Theater, entitled “The Wages of Sin.”
Without doubt thousands watched the actors as they played their part, little thinking that they too were actors in life’s great drama, and that it would soon be theirs to receive the wages of sin, not in play, but in reality.
It was a strange title to choose for a play, but there the truth was told out that sin is a master, and pays wages to his servants. And whether actors or audience, players or spectators, all alike were in his service (for he that committeth sin is the servant of sin), and, terrible fact! “The wages of sin is DEATH!” Reader, have you ever faced this fact? Sin, you end I have both served, and its wages are our due, ―death. And what after death? Annihilation, extinction, cessation of existence, as some tell us? No, God has said it, and therefore it must be true.
“AFTER DEATH THE JUDGMENT.”
Oh, to think that some are trifling, playing, sporting with sin, shutting their eyes to its dreadful consequences, ―death, judgment, and the lake of fire to follow. But, blessed be God! there are some who have no fear of death, for they know their sins are gone. Full well they remember the time when first the awful fact dawned upon them, that “the wages of sin is death.” How empty all of earth seemed as they looked into Eternity and viewed themselves in its light. Whither could they turn in their deep distress? Their sins stood out against them, death and judgment lay before them; to God alone could they turn. Did He refuse them? Nay; He told of One who had suffered death in the sinner’s stead, and borne the judgment which was his righteous due. Sin’s wages had been received by Him, that
GOD’S GIFT―ETERNAL LIFE―
might be the priceless possession of all who believe on Him. Dear reader, have you made the Lord Jesus Christ your trust? If not, trust in Him today. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” E. E. N.