03- 27- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (Romans 13:6- 8)
WE ARE IN DEBT UNTIL OUR DEATH…
6- “For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. 7- Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. 8- Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
It is very unfortunate that millions of people are in debts or in bad debts here in North America as well as all over the world. They buy a house and buy everything to put inside a big or huge house with their plastic and at the end of the day, people would work beyond their time and take a double job just to be able to pay their loans and mortgages as well as their credit cards. They spend their times out there working in the expense of their children and love ones.
Paul said; "Owe no man any thing;” For me, it would mean that as believers, we must not live in debt. I used to be in a bad debt with more than $25,000 both in car loans, credit cards, medical bills and utilities. During those times, we were behind with our mortgage for I believe about 3 months. For someone who does not make much, it’s too much. I’m glad I have no more car payments, eliminated some of our credit card debts and working on to clean up every debt we have. You do not spend that which is not yours, and that which you have owed to others. In the Book of (Psalm 37:21) “The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.” But let me share to you the debt that we can never pay even if we will give our lives to such debt. It’s a debt that no amount of money could pay and no positive and godly retribution can redeem us from such debt. The Apostle Paul in the Book of (Ephesians 1:7) talked about what we owed the Father and how the Lord Jesus Christ paid that which we owed the Father by what He has done on the Cross of Calvary. “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”
We are very grateful to our parents for not flushing us out from our mother’s womb when we were but a fetus. And we owe it to them for letting us live. We appreciate their love and for their care and for loving us with unconditional love. We appreciate them for having us under their roof. But all those things will have its pay day someday. But what God has done in our lives will never be recompensed; it will never be rewarded for, paid back or paid off by any means and anything or anyone. Let me close in with these verses about the sacrifice and the offering of the body and shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ for our redemption. In the Book of (Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15- And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 22- And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23- It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 26- For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”
