“I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.”(Romans 1:14 KJV)
Student loan debts may outlive the years we have been lent to live on earth while traveling to our heavenly home. When we try to reduce our monthly car payment by signing up for an eighty-four month payment plan (7 years), it seems like it’s a debt we will never pay off. The debt will hang around longer than the deluxe car we purchased! The housing market influenced some older folks to sell their paid off homes and buy new houses with a 30 year new mortgage. I guess in the latter case those seniors are planning on being around until they reach age 95 or 100 and are assured that they will have, God help us, social security and retirement funds to meet their house payment obligation. And how about that unsolicited credit card that you finally get down to a zero balance? You tear it up or cut it into pieces, pledging and promising never to use it again. However, the very next week you receive a new unsolicited credit card with the latest embedded technology and the greater temptation that comes with an increased spending limit. Off to shop you go and the debt starts to mount once again. All these examples make us think about debts that will never be paid off. However that is not the debt that the Apostle Paul points us to in the Scripture above.
There is a song that includes these words: “He paid a debt he did not owe. I owed a debt I could not pay I needed someone to wash my sins away. And now I sing a brand new song, “Amazing Grace” Christ Jesus paid the debt that I could never pay. He paid that debt at Calvary. He cleansed my soul and set me free. I’m glad that Jesus did all my sins erase; I now can sing a brand new song, “Amazing Grace,” Christ Jesus paid the debt that I could never pay.” I thought I better add this before the next paragraph so that you will not think you have to pay for salvation and to reiterate that salvation is freely given to those who put their faith in Christ. Jesus did pay it all. We are saved by grace through faith!
However, like the Apostle Paul, we ought to see ourselves as debtors, having a debt that will never be paid off. In other words, we ought to see that as long as we live we should be paying, so to speak, out of gratitude, paying back the Lord by doing kingdom building work until we die. Oh, we have a debt that will never be paid off. And even when we die, “hallelujah by and by,“ we will still be moved to freely offer praise for the fact that Jesus paid it all for us on Golgotha’s hill, on an old rugged cross. But look friend, don’t set back and wait for the latter! Be busy now, recognizing that you like Paul have a debt that will never be paid. The salvation you received, as they say, “Pay it forward” to those who have not experience that Amazing grace that saved a wretch like me…and you. Have a great Wednesday! Thank you for reading and for reacting! Be blessed!
Student loan debts may outlive the years we have been lent to live on earth while traveling to our heavenly home. When we try to reduce our monthly car payment by signing up for an eighty-four month payment plan (7 years), it seems like it’s a debt we will never pay off. The debt will hang around longer than the deluxe car we purchased! The housing market influenced some older folks to sell their paid off homes and buy new houses with a 30 year new mortgage. I guess in the latter case those seniors are planning on being around until they reach age 95 or 100 and are assured that they will have, God help us, social security and retirement funds to meet their house payment obligation. And how about that unsolicited credit card that you finally get down to a zero balance? You tear it up or cut it into pieces, pledging and promising never to use it again. However, the very next week you receive a new unsolicited credit card with the latest embedded technology and the greater temptation that comes with an increased spending limit. Off to shop you go and the debt starts to mount once again. All these examples make us think about debts that will never be paid off. However that is not the debt that the Apostle Paul points us to in the Scripture above.
There is a song that includes these words: “He paid a debt he did not owe. I owed a debt I could not pay I needed someone to wash my sins away. And now I sing a brand new song, “Amazing Grace” Christ Jesus paid the debt that I could never pay. He paid that debt at Calvary. He cleansed my soul and set me free. I’m glad that Jesus did all my sins erase; I now can sing a brand new song, “Amazing Grace,” Christ Jesus paid the debt that I could never pay.” I thought I better add this before the next paragraph so that you will not think you have to pay for salvation and to reiterate that salvation is freely given to those who put their faith in Christ. Jesus did pay it all. We are saved by grace through faith!
However, like the Apostle Paul, we ought to see ourselves as debtors, having a debt that will never be paid off. In other words, we ought to see that as long as we live we should be paying, so to speak, out of gratitude, paying back the Lord by doing kingdom building work until we die. Oh, we have a debt that will never be paid off. And even when we die, “hallelujah by and by,“ we will still be moved to freely offer praise for the fact that Jesus paid it all for us on Golgotha’s hill, on an old rugged cross. But look friend, don’t set back and wait for the latter! Be busy now, recognizing that you like Paul have a debt that will never be paid. The salvation you received, as they say, “Pay it forward” to those who have not experience that Amazing grace that saved a wretch like me…and you. Have a great Wednesday! Thank you for reading and for reacting! Be blessed!
“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” (Romans 5:8 NLT)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King