"Agree with your adversary quickly . . ." (Matthew 5:25).
In this verse, Jesus Christ laid down a very important principle by saying, "Do whay you know you must do -- now. Do it quickly. If you don't an inevitable process will begin to work 'till you have paid the last penny' (5:26) in pain, agony, and distress." God's laws are unchangeable and there is no escape from them. The teachings of Jesus always penetrate right to the heart of oru being.
Wanting to make sure that my adversary gives me all my rights is a natural thing. But Jesus says that it is a matter of inescapable and eternal importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord's standpoint it doesn't matter whether I am cheated or not, but what does matter is that I don't cheat someone else. Am I insisting on having my own rights, or am I paying what I owe fro Jesus Christ's standpoint?
Do it quickly -- bring yourself to judgment now. In moral and spiritual matters, you must act immediately. If you don't the inevitable, relentless process will begin to work. God is determined to have His child as pure, clean, and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right in almost always a clear indication that we have some pooint of disobedience. No wonder the Spirit of God so strongly urges us to stay steadfastly in the light! (see John 3:19-21).
"Agree with your adversary quickly ...." Have you suddenly reached a certain place in your relationship with someone, only to find that you have anger in your heart? Confess it quickly -- make it right before God. Be reconciled to htat person -- do it now!