Considering the Empty Promises of Sin

Excerpt modified from You Can Change by Tim Chester
While God invites us to find satisfaction in him, sin entices us with its lies to seek satisfaction elsewhere. What sin promises, it cannot and does not deliver. And the price is high—broken lives, broken relationships, broken hopes.
Consider when sin made one of the following promises in your experience—what did it actually deliver? When sin entices you today with empty promises, consider its precedent:

• Sin promises fun and excitement, but it delivers pain and tragedy.
• Sin promises freedom, but it delivers slavery and addiction.
• Sin promises life and fulfillment, but it delivers emptiness, frustration, and death.
• Sin promises gain, but it delivers loss.
• Sin promises that we can get away with it, but the fact is, we don’t.

Ultimately the wages of sin is death. God offers us a feast that satisfies. He offers delight for our souls. The motivation for change and holiness is this: God’s feast is so much better and there is no cost!