Deliverance from The Pit!

 "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily, I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." -Matthew 5:25-26 [KJV] 

My soul! hast thou agreed with thine adversary, and made full payment of all the law charges? If so, it is blessed to review the account, and look over the several particulars, wherein thou wert a debtor, now struck out of God's book, and marked paid, PAID, in red letters, with Jesus's blood. To thee, as a sinner, born in sin, and an insolvent debtor, both by nature and by practice, the law of God stood forth as thine adversary. To agree with Him as quickly as possible, whilst in the way with Him, and while life remains, which is every moment subject to be ended, is the first and most momentous of all concerns.  

Hadst thou not done this, and death had come, both law and justice must have consigned thee over to the Judge of quick and dead; and having rejected him as thy Saviour, and knowing Him only as thy Judge, He must have delivered thee to the angels, who are officers in His kingdom, to execute His wrath; and into hell, as the eternal prison, thou must have been cast: and as the debt then could never have been paid, so deliverance could never have been obtained; but unsatisfied justice would have continued to demand, without any possibility on thy part of paying, to all eternity.  

Now see how thy account stands. It is a solemn thing to deal with God. If thy debt of original and actual sin be not paid by thy Surety, it is not cancelled; but if Jesus, thy Surety, hath paid it for thee, thy God hath accepted it of Him; yea, He Himself constituted and appointed Him to pay it; and Jesus never gave over, nor did He compound with God, until He had paid the uttermost farthing: then art thou free. Oh! then, be often reviewing the blessed account, in which all thy plea for grace and acceptance here, and glory hereafter, most completely stands. Jesus hath paid the whole, and God the Father graciously saith, "Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom."—Job 33:24 [KJV] 

-Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)