“Love:A Continuing Debt To Pay!”

“Love: A Continuing Debt To Pay!”(Rom.13:8-10).
If there is one thing more than others that stresses people a lot, it is being a debtor. Financial institutions do not keep money. They lend out the money so as to make money. At any given time there are many debtors to financial institutions as there are members.
If you have ever been a debtor – that is if you are not one now – you certainly know how relieving it can be when you have made complete repayment of any pending debt.
It is a biblical principle that no debt should remain outstanding, “except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law.”
The Lord Jesus Christ said the second greatest command is to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The love of neighbor encompasses all social responsibilities. This means when you love your neighbor, you can do your neighbor no harm; neither can you hurt their feelings.
Social cohesion is enhanced by love or through love of neighbor and, or love of one another.
For the Christian, a neighbor is by the definition of Christ through the parable of the good Samaritan. Neighbor is not just the person living next to you. Neighbor is whoever is created in the image of God.
Throughout my life I have received full expression of love from people I’ve never known; some I will never see. I have also come to know that whatever love you’ve received, and whatever love you possess in you, “Pass it on!”
My friend, “Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Owe nobody anything, but be a debtor of “the continuing debt to love another.”
Weekend prayer: Holy Spirit help me daily to pay regularly and promptly the continuing debt of love that I owe my neighbor. Amen!
Have a blessed weekend! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.