How much do you owe?

Hello everyone,

Sorry about the last few days... I was trying to catch up on some rest. :)

There is a parable I love. In Luke 7: 41-43, Jesus speaks a parable to Simon about the woman with the alabaster box. They were saying thing about her and was making a big deal that she was a sinner and that he was wasting his time trying to help her. He replied to Simon this:

"There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him the most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave the most. And he [Jesus] said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged."

See God doesn't look at our faults. He looks at our hearts. Our past doesn't shock God. He sees our potential from our past and leads us into our future. I think this verse is so profound because I struggle alot of times with feeling like less than others because of my past but God proves here that he uses people with a past. I love how he makes it a point to explain to Simon that the people who have made the biggest mistakes appreciate his forgiveness most.

I guess the best way to describe this would be if you had one man who had lied and one who had committed a  murder, and both were in the same courtroom. The judge says to both of them that their charges had been dropped. Who do you think would be most thankful? A no brainer huh? the one who was probably facing a life sentence behind bars! He will always remember what that judge did for him and how things could have been different. This is how we should be. We should remember how God has forgiven us for so much and never forget that without him, we would have been given a life sentence.

What do you owe?
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