Credited to our Account

Last week we received a phone bill in our mailbox – first piece of real mail we’d received! Not understanding the words, we saw only the numbers – one very big number, actually – about 7000 rubles (somewhere around $300). Our jaws dropped and we wondered if we’d misunderstood the price for dial-up internet we’ve been using – is it really 25 rubles a minute instead of 25 rubles an hour? Yikes! The following day we asked a friend about the bill. Turns out, the total was printed in bold type, indicating that the amount wasn’t how much we owed, but instead was CREDITED to our account! Our landlady apparently wanted to pay a sizable amount ahead of time, probably to save herself the trouble of visiting the payments office each month (that’s how all bills are paid here – a real hassle considering the traffic, which is as bad if not worse than Atlanta’s). Whew – what a huge relief! Now imagine how we would have lived if we hadn’t realized it was a credit. For that one day when the bill arrived, we fasted internet, believing falsely that every minute of connect time was another dollar in the hole. Sure, one day is no big deal, but if we hadn’t understood the truth behind the statement, we would have gone on living that way every day. Same thing with the Word of God. We have to know the truth, we have to understand what God has said, in order to be able to receive all of His blessings! Otherwise we go on living with far less than what God has already given us, as though He hadn’t given those blessings to us at all. Our generous God has already “blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3) and “seated us with Christ in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 2:6). Genesis 15:6 says that Abraham (Abram) believed the Lord, and God “credited it to him as righteousness.” God has given us His Word, and it’s our job to believe what He has said! Then whenever we look at our accounts, every time, we will see a huge credit, a credit of righteousness, much bigger than we ever expect, because God can and always does do “far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!” (Ephesians 3:20, The Message). “So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.” (Hebrews 4:16, The Message)

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