I am confident that every single person reading my words right now knows a thing or two about being in debt. We can all come up with our own examples . . . in fact, I am again confident that each of us can come up with NUMEROUS examples of debt. Whether it be debt via credit cards . .. or debt in regards to a house mortgage or a car payment . . . or debt for other loans . . . . such as student loans for college; etc. All of us can think of debts that we have had over the years. While some debts are unavoidable . . . other debts we should avoid getting into at all costs possible. For example, trying as hard as we can not to be in debt to credit card companies. I even looked up how much "debt" the United States debt is and the source at least that I found stated it was somewhere around $19.26 Trillion dollars!!! All of us are in debt to someone in one way or fashion, it would seem.
Even in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, we hear: "Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh." (Romans 8:12) As stated above, all of us have been debtors at one point or another. Very often . . . if not every single time, come to think of it . . . we do not want to be in debt. Nobody wnats to be in debt, do they? Whether we just got done paying off a credit card, only to find ourselves having to use that credit card all over again. Or just when we get done paying off the car . . . something goes terribly wrong. Just last year, I remember, I had just finished paying off my car . . . . which, of course, is a wonderful feeling, wouldn't you agree? And then within a month or two, the car that I had just finished paying off was hit by another driver and it was destroyed. Thus, get a replacement vehicle and get back on that monthly car payment "merry-go-round" all over again. None of us wants to be in debt is the bottom line but sometimes we end up being in debt whether we want to or not. This is the point that St. Paul is making to the Romans. Some of us are in debt to our bodily urges . . . . whether it be the urges for: food; or drink; or drugs; or sex; or urges even for what we wear or what we own. Sometimes we become so caught up in these things that before we know it we get fixated, if you will, focused on our material needs such as food; drink; etc. This is the point that St. Paul is making. Let us not get so caught up with the desires of the flesh that we become a prisoner to our own desires. Isn't that was an alcoholic is, for example, a prisoner to his or her need for a drink? But there are so many examples that we can use. Don't become a debtor to things of the flesh. We are human, yes, but we are more than simply humans . . . . we are spirit as well. Focus your energy . . . Focus your desires . . . Focus your attention . . . . to things of God instead of things of earth. Don't become a debtor to things of this world because they are passing away. Our true treasure awaits us: to spend eternity with Our Heavenly Father.
Join St. Margaret Church on Sunday, July 17th, 2016 at 9:30 AM as we celebrate the Eighth Sunday after Trinity. Join us as we listen to the Word of God found in both the King James Bible and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Listen as God speaks to you through His Word. Join together with your Brothers and Sisters in Christ as we worship Our Heavenly Father as His Family. And also receive the Most Precious Body and Blood of Christ at Communion time.
St. Margaret worships at the beautiful chapel at Marquette Manor, located at 8140 N. Township Line Road on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.
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