Filing your "return"

Here we are again.  It happens this time every year.  No new surprises. Your income taxes are due.

As April 15^th quickly approaches, some are still scrambling to get their taxes done and out the door.  Of course if we think we’re due a refund, it’s a whole lot easier to get them signed, sealed and delivered.  But if not….well, we’ve got a few more days, right??!

“Putting off the inevitable”….one of my very favorite oxymorons.  

Death and taxes are two things we can always count on, or so they say.  I’ve heard of people “forgetting” about their taxes for a few years before it ever caught up to them.  But death….one cannot forget about death.  It has a way of being sort of “in your face” when it’s time.

I believe our lives, our souls, are much like income taxes.  There is one difference however.  For our lives, we have no idea when our deadline is (no pun intended).  Mine could be today, next week or 18,896 days from now.  That is not for me to know.  But it is absolutely for me to prepare myself for when it does occur.

You see, I know I sealed my return 4 years ago when I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.  My dues are paid.  Not because I paid them, but because I acknowledge that He paid them for me.  He paid them with his blood; with His life.  The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.  1 John 1:7  I am forever washed in the blood of the Lamb, on this earth and in eternity forevermore.

Dennis De Haan once said “Christ’s empty tomb gives us full assurance of heaven.”  My return is filed.  My refund awaits me.  I’m ready for my deadline whenever it is my time.  That is where my hope lies.