I was thinking about how I am averse to debt, generally speaking, and how it's often a difficult choice to make (let's see--drive 10 year old car and pray it starts when it's below freezing or finance a new car--for example). I choose the 10 year old car, by the way.
It's got me thinking about how you can pay off a car, or a house--but the debt you owe to those people who have loved you and cared for you throughout your life can never be repaid (not that they would want you to). In that way I will always be in debt to them, for what they have given me and what they have taught me.
These thoughts lead me to meditate on an even greater grace that we are offered freely.
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us
alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you
have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the
heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show
the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ
Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
God prepared in advance for us to do."
Ephesians 2: 4-10
And this grace is true freedom.
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