21/05/2020
Balancing Your Books
“...I will give them back everything they’ve lost. The last word is, I will have mercy on them...” (Jeremiah 33:26, MSG)
In accounting, the term balancing the books means making up for a loss. If an account has a deficit, when you balance the books, you have to first take all the losses, all the deficits, and total them up. Then you know how much you need to add to balance it. When the books are balanced, nobody can tell there’s ever been a loss.
In the same way, God has promised that He will balance the books of our lives. We all go through things that put us at a deficit—a rough moment, like what is going on in our world today, it may be a rough childhood, the loss of a loved one, something that doesn’t make sense. If nothing changed, we would be out of balance. Life is not always fair, but God is fair. You may go through seasons when you’re out of balance, but God is going to settle your case. He will add up all the losses, the disappointments, and the heartaches, and He will pay you back.
