Creditors and debtors

Our lives and interactions are transactions in value, and we are by nature givers (creditors), takers, and offenders (debtors).

In Matthew 6:12, Jesus, while teaching on prayer said; ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Here, Jesus identifies forgiveness as something of value like money. Something that can be exchanged or traded, given or withheld. 

The Lord encourages us to ask the father to forgive our debts - our offenses to Him. Then, indicating debt owed to one another, he uses the same analogy, He says ‘as we forgive our debtors,’ showing that we also should forgive that which is owed to us.

Therefore, IF WE OWE one another forgiveness, that must mean that there exist a spiritual law in which we were ORIGINALLY REQUIRED to extend good deeds - value to one another in our interactions, the failure of which is now regarded as an offense.

If this law is broken and a brother feels that his credit or value was not delivered, then there is a breach of the law and due recompense of judgment is required.  The law being broken we become legitimate debtors. For we cannot be debtors except it is true that there is something of value owed to another wherein we have failed to deliver.

Now, it seems that God recognizes that there is a breach in transaction and knows that a settlement is required. However, He asks the one who is owed to let it go and He (whom we all owe unpaid values) would in turn let go whatever we owe Him. 

In this way the Lord transfers the debt to Himself, reconciles the difference by paying it, settles the account and renders a ‘no balance owed’ and ‘paid in full’ account. This is God’s way of solving the problem.                                                  

Now, in the court of law, an offender is open to prosecution, so is the one who fails to forgive the debt of another. He remains a debtor for his debts remain unforgiven and unsettled by God. Such a person is open to the demands of the prosecutor.    

Now, guess who the prosecutor is, guess who holds the records and will seek retribution, guess who’s going to accuse if a debt remains on the records? You got it, the devil.

Friends, here’s the question; have you settled your account? Is there someone who owes you whom you have refused to forgive?  If you’re not sure, go through your interactions, your relationships, search your heart and mind, and make sure you release all. If you have to call such a person and talk it through, do so. Let go and let God or else you’ll be found a debtor yourself and retribution will be on the way coming to your doorstep. So, let’s make it right. 

In conclusion I’d like to echo the words of the Apostle Paul in saying; owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8. God bless!