Luke 7
41 “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?” 43 Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.
My coldness is the onset of my drifting from my understanding of my own sin. I have forgotten that it is Jesus who took the punishment for my transgression. And I have forgotten that my transgressions are so, so many.
When I meditate on that, my appreciation grows, my gratefulness returns, my humility is renewed and my love for my savior is refreshed.
Martin Luther once said that we all walk around with the Jesus' nails in our pocket. I need to listen more closely for the jingling in my pocket.
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