11/20/07
Coming back to US:
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another…” There are many times when we feel in debt with others; this is one of these times for me.
Almost three months ago I was writing also very early in the morning just before jumping on a flight to face a new season in life; then my thoughts where focused in the uncertain future, the unknown direction I had ahead; now my mind meditates in the sense of being in debt with many people God has used to shape me and mold me during this time.
While the word ‘debt’ does not sounds appealing, the Word of God – as usual – challenges my mind giving a new meaning and a new perspective that unfolds a new sense, a new wisdom in it… it’s a debt of love the only one we are allowed… and this debt is between one another. Can we ever pay back this debt? How do we do that?
Surely this is a real debt since I can feel it clearly in my heart. When I came to Ecuador, I admit that was not my choice; I did it based only in the love I have for God that requires from me one living expression: obedience… I could not imagine at that time how much grateful I would be to God for allowing me to come back to my home land and giving me the opportunity to meet people and experience His power and His love through them. Sometimes those ‘hard curves’ in our lives, when we see God’s will very unpleasant and hard to understand, really are – as somebody said – blessings in disguise.
I am grateful to God… I feel in debt with people. I owe them their simple way to know me and accept me, to understand me, to pray for me, to rejoice and cry with me, to help and provide for me… I owe them their trust and the opportunity they gave me to enter in their hearts and ask God to flow between us… I owe them their grateful hearts for our time together and their words of truth and encouragement when time to leave arrived. I’m sure God is glorified in these debts of love; I’m sure it’s not about just of prayers but about the marks we have carved in our hearts allowing each other to write - guided by God - those living letters that all men can read; letters of recommendation written in tablets not of stone.
I hope to come back next year to spend few weeks again with this loved people and share with them the always amazing work of God… I suppose this is the way Paul use to feel for people he met and loved during his trips; that’s why he used the words ‘continuing debt’… because real love cannot be paid in full since always leaves a desire to love back.
I guess love – already paid in full by Christ at the cross - will also be paid in full by us in Heaven as we join Him in perfect communion with the Father… until then the Spirit tells us something else has been fulfilled; “...for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law”.
Thanks God for loving us first; thanks for leaving to us such a beautiful debt which – by your grace in Christ – set us free from the law.
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Coming back to US:
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another…” There are many times when we feel in debt with others; this is one of these times for me.
Almost three months ago I was writing also very early in the morning just before jumping on a flight to face a new season in life; then my thoughts where focused in the uncertain future, the unknown direction I had ahead; now my mind meditates in the sense of being in debt with many people God has used to shape me and mold me during this time.
While the word ‘debt’ does not sounds appealing, the Word of God – as usual – challenges my mind giving a new meaning and a new perspective that unfolds a new sense, a new wisdom in it… it’s a debt of love the only one we are allowed… and this debt is between one another. Can we ever pay back this debt? How do we do that?
Surely this is a real debt since I can feel it clearly in my heart. When I came to Ecuador, I admit that was not my choice; I did it based only in the love I have for God that requires from me one living expression: obedience… I could not imagine at that time how much grateful I would be to God for allowing me to come back to my home land and giving me the opportunity to meet people and experience His power and His love through them. Sometimes those ‘hard curves’ in our lives, when we see God’s will very unpleasant and hard to understand, really are – as somebody said – blessings in disguise.
I am grateful to God… I feel in debt with people. I owe them their simple way to know me and accept me, to understand me, to pray for me, to rejoice and cry with me, to help and provide for me… I owe them their trust and the opportunity they gave me to enter in their hearts and ask God to flow between us… I owe them their grateful hearts for our time together and their words of truth and encouragement when time to leave arrived. I’m sure God is glorified in these debts of love; I’m sure it’s not about just of prayers but about the marks we have carved in our hearts allowing each other to write - guided by God - those living letters that all men can read; letters of recommendation written in tablets not of stone.
I hope to come back next year to spend few weeks again with this loved people and share with them the always amazing work of God… I suppose this is the way Paul use to feel for people he met and loved during his trips; that’s why he used the words ‘continuing debt’… because real love cannot be paid in full since always leaves a desire to love back.
I guess love – already paid in full by Christ at the cross - will also be paid in full by us in Heaven as we join Him in perfect communion with the Father… until then the Spirit tells us something else has been fulfilled; “...for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law”.
Thanks God for loving us first; thanks for leaving to us such a beautiful debt which – by your grace in Christ – set us free from the law.
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