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He Paid My Debt

Dear Reader,


There is a story of man who had a dream about death. He had passed from life and now found himself in a room full of sky-high filing cabinets, the kind found in libraries with authors' names written on small index cards. The cabinets were lined up in every direction and there seemed to be no end. The man wandered through the shelves and noticed something peculiar: the drawers, instead of authors' names, had interesting parts of life written them such as 'Jobs I've had' or 'People I've helped.'

Intrigued, the man continued looking at the names of drawers until he came to a realization that the drawers contained detailed descriptions of the different instances of his life. He opened a drawer with the title 'Times I've cried' and read, in detail, about every time he had cried in his life, the reason for his sadness and where he was when it happened. He then looked in drawer after drawer and found that every card came from his life.

Soon he came across a section that had a sign reading "SINS." With desperation, he ran over and opened a drawer labeled 'Lies I've Told' and discovered that every little white lie up to every big lie he had ever uttered was written with revealing detail. His guilt increased with every passing card he read.

He then heard footsteps approaching a door at the end of the room before the door opened. The man was filled with panic because he did not want anyone to see these cards. He tried to start tearing the cards with his sins, but he didn't have enough time to tear them all. On top of that, the cards would not tear even he did have the time before the visitor entered the room.

The visitor came in and began pulling out the cards one by one out of every drawer. The man was surprised to see that the visitor took each card and wiped his name off and signed "Jesus Christ." Somehow he finished all the cards almost instantaneously while the man was fretting and petrified at the sight. He was crying on the floor when Christ came over to sit next to him without saying a word.

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Now, I can't claim ownership on this story, but it is a good reminder of what today means. Christ paid the debt for everything we have ever done and everything we will ever do. 

Take a minute today to give thanks for that payment. 

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