Sinners and evil guys will eventually pay for all the bad things they have committed. God gives to those what they give to others.

What goes around comes around. When all you do is betray and hurt people, God will hurt you too, equal to the pain you caused to others.

This is the basic understanding of how karma, the law of cause and effect, works. Karma can be divided up into a few simple categories – good, bad, individual and collective.

Depending on your actions, you will reap the fruits of those actions. The fruits may be sweet or sour, depending on the nature of the actions performed.

Everything you say and do determines what’s going to happen to you in the future.

Whether you act honestly, dishonestly, help or hurt others, it all gets recorded and manifests as a karmic reaction either in this life or a future life.

All karmic records are carried with the soul into the next life and body.

There is no exact formula that provides how and when karmic reactions will appear in your life, but you can be sure they will appear in some form or other.

You may get away with a crime you committed, or avoid paying taxes, but according to karma, no one gets away with anything for long.

As his career was taking off in the late 1950’s, Cash started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates.

Cash used the stimulants to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his nervousness and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening drug addiction.

Although he was in many ways spiraling out of control, Cash could still deliver hits due to his frenetic creativity.

In June 1965, Cash’s camper caught fire during a fishing trip with his nephew Damon Fielder in Los Padres National Forest in California, triggering a forest fire that burned several hundred acres and nearly caused his death.

Although Cash cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence. Despite landing in jail seven times for misdemeanors, he stayed only one night on each stay.

Cash was last arrested in 1967 after police found he was carrying a bag of prescription pills and was in a car accident. Cash attempted to bribe a deputy, who turned the money down.

Reaching a low with his severe drug addiction and destructive behavior, Cash was divorced from his first wife and had performances cancelled, but he continued to find success.

In early 1967, Cash had a spiritual epiphany in the Nickajack Cave. Cash had attempted to commit suicide while under the heavy influence of drugs.

He descended deep into the cave, trying to lose himself and just die, but passed out on the floor.

Utterly discouraged, he felt God’s presence in his heart and struggled out of the cave (despite exhaustion) by following a faint light and slight breeze. To him, the incident represented his rebirth.

June, Maybelle moved into Cash‘s mansion for a month to help him get off drugs. Cash proposed onstage to June on February 22, 1968, at a concert at the London Gardens in London, Ontario, Canada.

The couple married a week later. She had agreed to marry Cash after he had cleaned up.

Cash did not completely stop using amphetamines in 1968. Cash did not end all drug use until 1970, staying drug-free for a period of seven years.

Grant claims that the birth of Cash‘s son, John Carter Cash, inspired Cash to end his dependence.

Cash began using amphetamines again in 1977. By 1983, he was deeply addicted again and became a patient at the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment. He stayed off drugs for several years, but relapsed.

By 1989, he was dependent and entered Nashville’s Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center.

In 1992, he started care at the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center in California, for his final rehabilitation treatment.

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ’em down
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ’em down

Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head’s been wet with the midnight dew
I’ve been down on bended knee talkin’ to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel’s feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, ‘John go do My will!’

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ’em down
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ’em down

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin’ in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut you down
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut you down
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut you down