Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.

For the wages of sin is death. – Romans 6:23.

A certain tyrant sent for one of his subjects, and said to him, “What is your employment?” He said, “I am a blacksmith.”—“Go home, and make me a chain of such a length.” He went home: it occupied him several months; and he had no wages all the time he was making it. Then he brought it to the monarch; and he said, “Go and make it twice as long.” He brought it up again; and the monarch said, “Go and make it longer still.” Each time he brought it, there was nothing but the command to make it longer still; and, when he brought it up at last, the monarch said, “Take it, and bind him hand and foot with it, and cast him into a furnace of fire.” These were the wages of making the chain. Here is a meditation for you to-night, ye servants of the devil. Your master, the devil, is telling you to make a chain. Some have been fifty years welding the links of the chain; and he says, “Go and make it still longer.” Next sabbath morning, you will open that shop of yours, and put another link on; next sabbath, you will be drunk, and put on another link; next Monday, you will do a dishonest action: and so you will keep on making fresh links to this chain; and, when you have lived twenty more years, the devil will say, “More links on still!” And then, at last, it will be, “Take him, and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into a furnace of fire.” “For the wages of sin is death.”
~ C. H. SPURGEON

Scripture for opening text taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, ESV © 2016 by Crossway Bibles.
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