A weekday morning devotional series written by Aaron Marcarelli and hosted by Chad McBeam
“Come to good terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way to court, so that your accuser will not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will not be thrown into prison. Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last quadrans.”
Matthew 5:25-26 NASB2020
Once again Jesus words have a double meaning. They are both literal and figurative.
The literal meaning of these verses are obvious. If you have debt pay it, or settle with your collector. Don’t let it go to court. The courts will always handle these issues more harshly.
The figurative part of this is perhaps less obvious. We all have the debt of sin to pay. There is no way we can pay the debt of sin. However, there has been settlement and our debt has been completely forgiven, all we have to do is accept this gift and follow the one who forgave us our debt. If we don’t accept this gift, we will be judged and the sentence will be eternal life in hell.
Yes, those are harsh words. But God speaks the truth in love. He has given us a way out. He has given us the free gift of grace which is the forgiveness of all our sins and eternal life with Him. It is only through Christ’s death, resurrection and ascension that we have received this incredible and undeserving gift.
Let us truly follow Him, by continually proclaiming this perfect gift of salvation, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit all may accept this free gift of grace and be freed from the debt and bondage of sin.
Lord, we thank you for your free and perfect gift of salvation. Thank you for forgiving us of our debts. Help us to forgive our debtors as well. Help us also to proclaim your blessings of forgiveness to others. So that they also may know the freedom of your grace. We pray all these things in your perfect and pleasing name! Amen…
Shalom Blessings and Press In and Press On!