Credit Card Analogy - By Karen B. White
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,” Ephesians 2:8 NKJV
Thinking about salvation, I realized that it is like we were issued a credit card at birth. Each time we sinned the cost was applied to the card with the debt growing daily. One day while looking at the balance on our credit statement we realized that we had a problem. We had become a slave to sin.
A review of the privacy statement (Bible) stated that the owner (God) of the company was merciful and if one simply believed and asked, he would forgive our debts. So we cried out to the credit card company asking them to forgive our debt, and we cut the card into pieces so we could no longer use it (Repenting of sin). True to his word the owner stamped “paid” on our enormous bill and then added our name to the leger (Book of Life) of those who were pronounced free of debt. In addition, we became shareholders complete with benefits and responsibilities.
What God has provided for our debt through Jesus is the greatest payment possible. All one has to do is ask for forgiveness of sins, believe that He is God’s son and has pardoned us of sins, then tell others we are now debt free and they can be also!
Dear Lord, thank You for the gift of Your son who died to pay for our sins. In Jesus’s name, amen.
Karen is a writer, wife, mother of 3, and grandmother of 5. Her dream is to be a Christian author. Contact
