Short reading today, but a big idea, the idea that we are in debt as a part of our being saved. However, it’s not a debt that we could ever fully repay. It’s also not a debt that God is holding over us for repayment either. It is simply a debt that serves to inform how we live our lives daily.

Here is another way to think about it. Imagine someone gives you an incredible gift; something beyond what you would’ve imagined or ever really deserved from them.  I can remember when my parents gave me my first acoustic guitar. I don’t take credit for earning that guitar. In fact, the only thing I get when I think about that guitar is a sense of gratitude. It was a gift to me. I think our debt to Christ should give us a similar feeling; gratitude.

Gratitude is the sign of recognition related to the receipt of a gift. Gratitude is a marker that there is an imbalance tilted in my favor.

I don’t know my parents the money for the guitar, nor God anything for his sons death…not technically.

But, a good son to his parents and a good son to God would respond by living in recognition of that gift and harnessing that gratitude.

How do we do that? These verses make mention of living a spirit-led life again, just as we discussed yesterday, so that’s how we thank God. It’s not how we repay God, but how we think God.  God wants our thanks, not our repayment.

Today, I am praying that I would feel that gratitude, that I would FEEL thankful and that it would encourage an extra act of grace or love.  I pray that as I do as God says, I will begin to see as God sees, and the gratitude that is rising up in me will lead me to more naturally do as God says even more.