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Have you ever notice that sometimes we seem to wait until the last minute just hoping that the unpleasantness will go away! Unfortunately, it doesn't. Faithfully the day of reckoning comes each year. We gather our records, fill out the forms, and send our annual contribution to our dear Uncle Sam. For many of us in Georgia that day was April 17th this year. Yesterday, I dutifully went to post office before it closed to send my checks to the Federal and State Governments. It's amazing when you think of all the worry and fuss over this one day each year.

There is however a reckoning day day coming that is far more important than paying our taxes! Unfortunately there are so many people who are ill-prepared for that fateful day. Paul wrote about it this way in Romans 14:10-12.

For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.
It is written:
" 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,
'every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.' "
So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

It is one thing to try find loopholes in the tax law, or find some way to avoid penalties here, but there will be no loopholes when we stand before the judgment seat of God. It will surely be a an awesome day of reckoning. Today let me encourage you to prepare yourself for that great day of reckoning before God. Come before God in prayer and find forgiveness and peace with Him. That great day is coming. and it may be coming sson! Maranatha!