Debt

While driving in Houston last week, I was passed by a gleaming, new Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. A red convertible. You make' em, we buy' em. Growing up after World War II, I collect pictures of aircraft clipped from magazines. I also assembled model planes. I knew Mitsubishi. The made the dreaded "Zero" naval aircraft that amazed our pilots in WW II. Yesterday, an enemy. Today, we engage (even throw money at) a friend.

 

If anything spiritually arrests a person, it is holding onto a hurt. So many people limp through life keeping a past hurt on life support. When Jesus tells us to forgive, he means it. And he means it for our own good. Financial debt enslaves us (Psalm 22:7) as does emotional debt.

 

Seeing our fiercest foe become a trading partner and friend reminds us that freedom from emotional (spiritual) debt can be possible, if not liberating. Not an overnight thing, but both possible and revitalizing.

 

What hurt do you hold on life support? Isn't it time to let God have it? He is big. We are too puny. Get on with living through debt reduction.