Key Verse: "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh."
- Romans 8:12 KJV
As God's creatures, we are all debtors to Him—to
obey Him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken His
commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to His justice, and we
owe to Him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian
it can be said—that he does not owe God's justice anything, for Christ has
paid the debt His people owed; for this reason the believer owes the more,
to love. I am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving mercy; but I am
no debtor to His justice, for He will never accuse me of a debt already
paid! Christ said, "It is finished!" and by that He meant, that whatever
sin-debt His people owed—was wiped away forever from the book of
remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied divine justice; the
account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is
given, and we are debtors to God's justice no longer.
But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that
sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we would have been
otherwise. Christian, pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor you are
to divine sovereignty! How much you owe to His selfless love, for He
gave His own Son that He might die for you. Consider how much you owe to His
forgiving grace, that after receiving ten thousand affronts from
you—He loves you as infinitely as ever! Consider what you owe to His power;
how He has raised you from your death in sin; how He has preserved your
spiritual life; how He has kept you from falling; and how, though a thousand
enemies have beset your path—you have been able to hold on your way.
Consider what you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a
thousand times—He has not changed once! You are as deep in debt as you can
be—to every attribute of God. To God you owe yourself, and all you
have—yield yourself as a living sacrifice, it is but your reasonable
service.
Are you Saved?
