Because of Him, we're Debt Free

I'm going to brag on my husband a little bit. Because I know he won't. Last week, Jordan submitted our last mortgage payment. We are now complete owners of our little home! And it only took him a little over five years to pay it all off.

Even though this is a pretty exciting - and big - deal, when I asked Jordan how he felt about being debt free, he just shrugged and said it didn't feel much different. Maybe it's because we didn't call Dave Ramsey and shout "We're debt free!" over the air waves. Or because, as of yet, we haven't gotten a certificate from the bank congratulating us on not owing them any more money. Whatever the case may be, Jordan's been rather quiet sharing the news - even with his family.

And as I thought about this on the way home from a couple hours' work this afternoon, I couldn't help but think how quiet I am about being debt-free. Not about being mortgage-payment debt free - I think I've told more people than Jordan has. But about being sin-payment debt free.

"When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." - Colossians 2:13-14, NASB (emphasis mine)

As believers, we have been forgiven the ultimate debt. Our sins has been totally and completely wiped clean. Gone. Remembered no more. And yet, sometimes - often times - we're quiet about it.

Our lives, our eternal future, has been ultimately changed and we don't tell a soul. 

Why?

I could list a whole bunch of "maybe's" here, but I won't. Because excuses are lousy. They temporarily justify but don't cause change or warrant any action on our part.

And to be honest, there is no excuse for our lack in sharing the greatest news ever told. 

So let's change that. Let's start sharing the incredible news of God's forgiveness. That God so loved the world He sent Jesus to die in our place on our behalf. That although we will still have trouble in this world, we can cling to the One who has overcome the world.

That because of Him, not because of anything we have done or earned, we are debt-free.