I thought I was enjoying my life; I didn’t know that I was going bankrupt. Actually, my parents and ancestors left some debts too. It wasn’t entirely their fault; mortality became espoused to indebtedness to death at the historic exit from the King’s yard (Romans 5:12). So, my carefree youthful days made the burden of my debt far too heavy for me to bear. By the time I realised my errors, I had been slapped with a 1,000% tariff – 100% tariff in the form of physical death and 900% tariff in the form of eternal deadness (Romans 6:23).
Oh, how doomed I was. But a friend who I hadn’t known until recently popped up and paid my debt in full (1 John 2:2). He secures my mortal life with his presence, and suddenly my gloom is brightened by the radiance that beams from his face (2 Corinthians 4:6), my earthly travails now align with his pervasive joy. And even if and when I die mortally, it only counts as sleeping because his resurrection sets a hopeful precedence for me (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).
To activate this debt-clearing deal, though, I had to subscribe. Funny enough, I expected such a life-saving subscription to be so costly, but again I realised it is free for me because the friend who I didn’t know until recently had also paid my subscription fee in advance (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:8). All I had to do was renounce my old ways and accept his friendship (2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 12:2). A few years into the riddance, I can confirm that his burden is light and his yoke is easy (Matthew 11:30). The guidelines that I once considered to be quite hard are rather for my mortal and eternal health.
That one subscription has been a gift that keeps giving. At this Easter, I invite you too to subscribe to his friendship, and I bet you won’t regret it (John 15:13-15, Romans 8:32)
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