Tell Me How Much I Owe
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17)
Today’s Morsel: If you had to pay Jesus back for all that He has done for you, how much do you think you would owe? If Jesus charged us $100.00 for every sin and wrongdoing that we have done, how much would you owe? Often, we may not even consider how much it cost Christ to free us from the grip of Satan. Israel never considered how much it cost for them to be freed from Egypt. They just saw it as God bringing them out into the wilderness to kill them. They just murmured and complained about what they were going through, not what God was doing for them. I think if they would have considered the cost, they may not have been so ungrateful. It doesn’t seem that they knew what price the Egyptians paid for pharaoh not letting them go. They only saw Pharaoh’s army drown in the Red Sea. But I don’t think that they felt the impact of mothers weeping for their firstborn. I don’t think they understood the impact of having no water to drink because it was all turned into blood. Nor the impact of frogs in your kneading troughs, lice in your hair, flies in your soup, and your fields on fire. Their deliverance cost Egypt dearly, and yet they never seemed to consider the cost. Haggai admonishes us: “Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.” (Haggai 1:5-7) Just how much do you owe? What are you doing to pay your debt?
Sing: He paid a debt He did not owe, I owe a debt I could not pay; I needed someone to wash my sins away. And now I sang a brand-new song Amazing Grace, for Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.
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