My Debt He Paid
1 Peter 2:21-24 Christ gave you an example to follow. He suffered for you. So you should do the same as he did: “He never sinned, and he never told a lie.” People insulted him, but he did not insult them back. He suffered, but he did not threaten anyone. No, he let God take care of him. God is the one who judges rightly. Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you were healed.
Interest rates go up and down on a regular basis. When they’re up, those who’ve borrowed find it harder and harder to repay their debt. And some, sadly, end up drowning in their debt, losing everything.
I pray that you, like me, have never experienced that. I’ve seen people lose their house when they couldn’t keep up with the payments and the bank repossessed it to sell it from underneath them. It must be so completely soul destroying.
And yet … I’m all too familiar with having a debt so huge, that I could never repay it. That debt for me, and for you, is our sin – all the things we’ve done wrong. And with God’s standard being complete holiness, complete perfection, there’s nothing – absolutely nothing – that you and I could ever do to repay that debt. We would’ve drowned. But …
1 Peter 2:21-24 Christ gave you an example to follow. He suffered for you. So you should do the same as he did: “He never sinned, and he never told a lie.” People insulted him, but he did not insult them back. He suffered, but he did not threaten anyone. No, he let God take care of him. God is the one who judges rightly. Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you were healed.
As someone once said, Jesus came to pay a debt He didn’t owe, because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay. And the only thing you and I can do is to trust in Him and stop living for sin.
My debt He paid. My death He died.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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