Overdrawn

Have you ever owed someone some money and you didn’t have it to pay back? Or has your account ever been overdrawn because you spent more than you had? Maybe you bit off more than you could chew and didn’t realize that you couldn’t afford the new debts you have just acquired. Whatever the case may be, you have been in over your head at one point or another in your life.

We all can relate because many times our mouths write a check that our actions cannot cash. There are times when we find ourselves in situations that there is no way that we can get ourselves out of. Some of us may suffer in silence as our world falls apart and others may reach out to everyone they know to see if they can help. But there are those times when NO ONE can help, when you get in so deep that you can’t even believe you have gone so far.

Because of our “human nature” some of us may have found ourselves in this predicament more times than we would like to admit.

We can even relate with situations that have nothing to do with money. We may have used deception to get into something but now there is no way out. There is nothing that we can do except face the music.

Parents frequently try to intervene when it’s their child that has found themselves in a bind. The parent will do everything in their power to alleviate their child from having to endure the pain and suffering that may be the result of their bad decisions. But there are times that even the love of a parent is not enough.

I’m not talking about the times when you were innocent and just got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. No, I mean when you are guilty of putting yourself in a situation you never should have been in.

Jesus came to pay that debt that you had no way to pay.

Long before you were born, His love conquered what should take you down. All of our accounts are overdrawn. We are in over our heads when we try to live life on our terms. We find ourselves spiraling out of control as we attempt to take control.

But look what love did!

Love came in the form of a man to walk the earth and let Himself be murdered to cover our overdrawn accounts. Romans 3:24 Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

Even before we ever made a mistake or were even born, the love of God paid the price for our actions. The love that He gives is unconditional because He did it without us loving Him back.

It should be easy to serve God when you know that He paid a price that you never could. You could never bring your account of life to a positive state without the blood that was shed for you. You don’t have to be overdrawn when God has given you an unlimited supply of His love to cover it all!

With All My Love,
Mrs. Truscott