Author James Herriot tells of an
unforgettable wedding anniversary he and his wife celebrated early in
their marriage. His boss had encouraged him to take his wife to a fancy
restaurant, but Herriot balked. He was a young veterinarian and
couldn’t really afford it. “Oh, do it!” the boss insisted. Herriot
reluctantly agreed and surprised his wife with the news.
En route to the restaurant, Herriot and
his wife stopped at a farm to examine a farmer’s horse. Having finished
the routine exam, he returned to his car and drove to the restaurant,
unaware that his checkbook had fallen in the mud. After a wonderful
meal, Herriot reached for his checkbook and discovered it was gone.
Quite embarrassed, he tried to offer a way of making it up.
“Not to worry,” the waiter replied.
“Your dinner has been taken care of!”
As it was, Herriot’s employer had paid
for the dinner in advance. *
God has done the same for us. Jesus’
utterance on the cross, “It is finished” (John 19:30), is a Greek term
meaning “paid in full.” On the cross, Jesus paid for the debt of our
sins and He paid the debt “in full.”
In Today’s Walk in the Word
(7/22/21), Joe Barnett stated this sublime truth succinctly:
Jesus paid our sin debt.
We owed it but couldn’t pay it. He didn’t
owe it but paid it. The debt is no longer owed — It has been paid in
full.
We could get by on nothing less.
We need nothing more.
We rely on nothing else.
“Hopelessly in debt” is now past tense.
**
All we have to do is accept God’s offer of
forgiveness and eternal life on His terms. God will cancel the debt of
sin and give eternal life to those who place their
faith and trust
in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in
repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will
continue to cleanse from sin those who continue to walk in the light of
His Word (1 John 1:7-9).
Your debt has
been paid if only you will accept God’s offer on His terms.
Won’t YOU?
-- David
Sargent
* As qtd. by Darryl Dash,
www.dashhouse.com. **
“Paid in Full.” Today’s Walk in the Word (7/22/2021) by Joe
Barnett, Pathway Evangelism,
www.pathwayco.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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