Our hearts, our souls have known freedom through Christ for 5 years, but we have still been in bondage. Wrapped up in mistakes, indulgences and selfish desires we buried ourselves in trouble, we used money to try to fix the broken state of our souls. This insipid prescription very nearly destroyed our marriage and only piled mounds of ugliness on top of the trouble already brewing. We met Jesus and His work on the cross purified us of unrighteousness...He changed our hearts...He saved our marriage...He began the lifelong process of sanctification within our hearts. Through fresh eyes we could see the tangible damage of our sins I remember so clearly the despair, the utter grief that debt brings. I have known forgiveness and still felt deep scars and stains as we walked through the painful consequences of our mistakes.
Today is a new day. What is old is truly gone, what has been made new in the truths of the Lord is here to stay. Today marks our very last payment to the debt that has held us captive.
What a great work that has been done in my heart in this journey. I am no longer desiring the *things* that we had to sacrifice to make bigger payments toward our debt. The chains have been broken. I am so excited to be free to be used for God's kingdom building, not Katie building. I didn't know how emotional this day would be until I heard my husbands words, "its finished." I cannot hold back the flood of emotion, of praise, of gratefulness. God has been so faithful. To Him be the glory.
