Forgiven Much

Hospital    $38,363.00
Urologist 6758.00
Emergency Room   420.00
Anesthesiologist 1260.00
Radiologist   524.00
Pathology   119.00
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Total     $47024.00

The complete total of the bill from my first visit, over $21,000, has been completely eliminated!  Praise God!  In addition, several of my other creditors have agreed to drastically reduce their bills as well in light of this.  In total I’ve been forgiven over twenty-five THOUSAND dollars!  I’m completely confident God will write off the other outstanding bill from the hospital as well, so we’re talking an absolutely enormous amount of grace from God here.  My mother was talking to a coworker about this, and her response was, “This is incredibly out of character for me to say this, but that is a miracle!”

I must confess it’s been hard at times to turn over a financial need of over $60,000 to God these last few months.  I hate being in debt at all, but a debt I have no way of paying off is even worse.  Completely aside from the monster bills facing me back home (and there are still a few that refuse to modify the bill much at all) I’ve had to constantly face the continued financial deadlines for funding for the World Race.  The crazy thing is, somehow God has promised me that all the money I need will be provided.  How, I don’t know.  I have yet to guess right – money has come from the most unexpected places, and it’s always and unquestionably from God.  I still need several thousand dollars to meet my funding goal – won’t you be part of this miracle?  To support me, just click this link and help out!  If you’re unable to financially assist me in God’s work (and even a buck a week helps immensely, so don’t think you can’t be a part) please pass this on to your friends, your families, your churches, or anyone else who might be willing to help me make this last little bit up.  God’s just freed me from a debt of more than the total support cost for the entire trip – surely He can guide a few more people to support His work around the world!

God has forgiven a financial debt to me that was greater than anything I have ever seen in my life, and I have so much gratitude to Him for that.  Better still though is the forgiveness of an even greater debt – my sin debt.  I was born a wretched sinner, fallen from the grace of God and destined for eternity in hell.  I am far from perfect, and a perfect God can only accept perfect people into His presence – that is, into heaven.  God has required that only a death can be considered equivalent payment for sin, and my death would have been eternal.  I can’t just go into debt with God, or declare spiritual bankruptcy and squeak my way into Heaven – death has a way of stopping all payments on my behalf.  Fortunate it is indeed then, that God loves me too much to leave things like that, and so He came down in the form of a human – Jesus Christ.  Jesus died, even though He had never sinned, and so God had on his hands a life credit, payable to everyone and anyone who wants to turn over their life debt.  I’ve got here a gigantic monetary debt paid off that I could never have handled myself, and I’m so glad it’s off my shoulders – but so much more than that is the incredible blessing He’s given to my eternal soul by paying off the sin debt I owed and had even less chance of repaying!