Hedged in by God's Grace: Grace! My debt has been paid in full!!!!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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.

Psalms 16

¹ Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.

² O my soul, you have said to the LORD,
“You are my Lord,
My goodness is nothing apart from You.”
³ As for the saints who are on the earth,
“They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.”

⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god;
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,
Nor take up their names on my lips.

⁵ O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.
⁶ The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance.

⁷ I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel;
My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
⁸ I have set the LORD always before me;
Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will rest in hope.
¹⁰ For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
¹¹ You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

About me.

My full testimony is posted in May 2009 but it's quite long so I thought a condensed version would be good.

I started this blog to give glory to God because I was healed and delivered from long-term depression and debilitating anxiety. I was on medication for over 10 years and over the years God brought me to a place to believe for my healing. It was not an over night process and I had to and still have to rely on God to maintain my healing but it's been well over a year and I'm praising God for continuing to teach me how to stand on His Word and I thank Him daily for my healing.

Psalms 16 is an outline that God revealed to me to help others recognize their need for healthy boundaries with others, boundaries our Heavenly Father provides and how to know when the enemy is encroaching on the rich heritage that God has provided through salvation in Jesus Christ.