Being in debt is hard. Sometimes, it feels like we can never get out. Though we work hard and make regular payments, there are days it feels most hopeless.
Though we do not like to admit it, this concept of debt applies to our spiritual life as well. Take a look at Colossians 2:13-14:
"And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross."
This debt, the sin debt, is one that we cannot pay off. But God erased it with the cross. We are freed from those legal demands, and are called into a new arrangement.
Over the next few weeks, we will take a look at what that means. It is a process that will take a lifetime, but God, who has called us to life, will give us what we need as we follow Him.
Bibliography
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version. New York: Oxford UP, 1989. Print.
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