Grace! My debt has been paid in full!!!!

I've been thinking.

Let's suppose I took out a loan for a million dollars. Then I realize I have no possible way to pay this loan back within my life time. I struggle and strive to pay it back but the interest just keeps growing and I can't even touch the principle amount of the loan.

Then I find out that someone went to the bank and paid more to the bank what I owed them. In fact, that person paid my debt even before I was born knowing that I would need this gift bestowed to me. Well, that's good news!

I would be pretty silly to keep paying the bank, now wouldn't I? The bank can keep threatening me to pay but I just show them the deed of payment: PAID IN FULL!

Jesus paid in full what the Law of sin and death said I owed!

I would be pretty silly to keep letting the devil accuse me of sin since Jesus paid it in full!

I would be pretty silly to keep allowing the devil to rob me of what is rightfully mine since the debt is paid in full.

I would be pretty silly to not thank the Savior of my soul for paying in full the price of redeeming mankind from an eternal life away from God.

Isaiah 52:1&2
Awake! Awake! Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer come into you. Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Good news! God wants to bless you.

Psalms 16: 7 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel;
My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

I don't know about you, but there are things that have been coming up that I need an abundance of wisdom. I'm so thankful that I don't have to beg and plead for our Abba Father to extend his wisdom in my direction. We are promised in Matthew 7 that our Heavenly Father would never give us a snake or a stone if we ask for a good gift.

Think about it, if your child comes to you and asks for something and it is within your power to give it to them, would you refuse? No way! I would be wanting to bless my child with any good thing they ask for. If they ask me what I should do if they are in trouble, I will gladly offer my assistance and even go to the ends of the earth to bring them comfort and save them from trouble. How much more would our Heavenly Father dispatch angels or grant us the request when we ask for His help?

I'm reminded of the prayer in 1 Chronicles 4:10, we read: "And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested."

That's the good news! God granted him that which he requested! Praising our wonderful God!!!