Free to Live Life
Imagine, just for a few second, how powerful the church would be if we created an offence-free society. Imagine if we dealt with things because we loved each other before we ever went down the slippery slope that leads to murder. What would it do for us? What would it do for others in our lives? What would it do for people in the community who see us as representatives of Jesus? Take some time to do some business with God and ask Him to make you aware of how much you’ve been forgiven. Then bring that person to your mind, the one that you’ve been holding contempt against in your heart, the person that said something nasty. The person who you felt treated you harshly.
Maybe it was a father, maybe a mother or maybe even someone who has been dead and gone for a very long time, but that slave driver of contempt is still invading your whole life. I want you to picture that person clearly in your head and, deep in your heart, to tell them; I cancel your debt. What you did was wrong. It hurt me badly, but from this day on you don’t owe me anymore. You don’t owe me. You’re free to live your life and I’m free to live mine.
God has a huge vision for our lives, and that vision is this; that we create a culture of people that the whole world would want to be a part of. We need to create a culture of people that doesn’t have contempt in their hearts.
Have your moment with God right now and just let that go. Cancel the debt. Maybe say out loud, “I cancel their debt. They don’t owe me anymore.”
