Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James 1:13-15
In June of 2026, as the world marked the eighty-second anniversary of the D-Day invasion with ceremonies in France, England, and America, people remembered the courage and sacrifice that helped bring the Second World War to an end. At the same time, a very different reminder of that war emerged in Indonesia. The Papua region was rocked by a massive explosion that destroyed nine homes, killed at least five people, and injured more than a dozen others. “The source of the explosion is strongly suspected to have been a bomb or mortar left over from World War II,” Papua police spokesman Cahyo Sukarnito told reporters. In many parts of the world, unexploded ordnance from World War II—and even World War I—still poses a deadly threat decades after the fighting ended.
While there are many times when the effects of sin are immediate and obvious, there are other times when they linger for years or even decades before coming to light. Yet no matter how much time passes, the end result is always death and devastation.
There are no sins we can commit that do not come with consequences. We may try to convince ourselves that somehow we are an exception to God’s unchanging law of sowing and reaping, but that is a lie the devil tries to use to lead us astray. Sin always leads to death. It was true in the Garden of Eden when God forbade Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of one tree. It was true during the life of Christ when He took the penalty of death that we owed and paid it in full. And it is true today—sin only has one destination, and that is always destruction.
