EV - Day 10 - The Debt Is Paid

 "Those who belong to Christ Jesus are no longer under God's sentence. I am now controlled by the law of the Holy Spirit. That law gives me life because of what Christ Jesus has done. It has set me free from the law of sin that brings death. The written law was made weak by our sinful nature. But God did what the written law could not do. He made his Son to be like those who have a sinful nature. He sent him to be an offering for sin. In that way, he judged sin in his Son's human body." Romans 8:1-3

There once was a time when you went to prison for having financial debts you could not pay....and it is certainly difficult to pay off debts from prison. You may spend the rest of your life there while your whole family struggled to support themselves and try to pay of your debts for your release.

Such as it is with our debt to sin. We could work our whole life to try to pay for it ourselves, but would never, ever succeed. We are incapable, and the debt is too large.

But Jesus' death on the cross paid off our balance. We have the opportunity to be released from the prison of sin by simply accepting Christ's payment.

It is hard for me to imagine anyone who would rather rot in prison than let someone pay their debt off. Yet, millions all over the world choose to die in sin, rather than accept Christ's payment.

He has already paid the debt.