Monday, April 25, 2016

No Debt

Romans 3:23-24 NLT
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

We all desire to be free of all debt. Yet we have grown up in a society that makes it easy to buy now and pay later. We have zero percent credit cards for six months or a year. When the time is up we find another one with the same deal. And our credit scores go up as we charge more and more as long as we make our payments.

Need a new car? No problem. With our great credit score we can get one for a few dollars down using our credit card and then make monthly payments for the next four or five years. It is so easy to go into debt and satan loves to see it. We live like there is no tomorrow buying the latest and greatest with no concern for how high our debt level. Most of our income goes to pay down the debt.

Because of what Jesus did for mankind on the cross that day, we are freed from the debt of sin. There is no longer any outstanding debt for the sins we had committed. He even rescued us from any future sin debt. He stands in the gap between the Father and us. Since Father God only sees us through His son, Jesus, we are righteous in His eyes forever. We are right with God.

Does this mean we never do anything wrong from the day we became a Christian? I wish that were so. Our spirit man was made one with Holy Spirit that day we became a believer. Our human man has a lot of catching up to do. Our mind is being renewed to the mind of Christ. Although we know what we should do, we fall back into our old way of thinking and take our focus off of the Father.

When Holy Spirit brings our shortcoming to our mind, we stop and rethink what we have said or done. We repent and turn our focus back on God asking Holy Spirit to help us to not do that again. It may happen each day, but because of the Grace of God we remain forgiven and right in His sight. Thank you Jesus for our debt being canceled for all times.


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