If you receive a notice in the mail that says all of your debts are canceled what would you do? Credit card debt canceled! Car loan debt canceled! House mortgage debt canceled! Student loan debt canceled! You name the debt canceled! After getting over the idea that this is a joke, too good to be true, and all the other doubts, what would your response be?

Once it set in that you are now completely debt free, how would you live? What would you do? Could you live a debt free life or would you go back into debt since you had a clean slate? Would you think oh yes, now I can go buy this or do that? Or would you practice self-control and run on the tracks of gratitude for the cancelation of the debts by living debt free?

The momentum we are moving with is usually hard to turn around even when we are free from the taskmaster of debt that has been driving us for so long. Gratitude is not to be a one time response but a recurring revelation that causes us to change direction, change our cadence and change our heart posture from one that only knows how to live in debt to one that knows how to live free.

Colossians 2:13-15 speaks of debts that we have been set free from, “God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.” You are not in debt to sin, but the question is now that you are debt free from sin, can you change direction and remain free?

The Lord has set us free and is going to set us free in more ways than we can see, but the question is can we stay free, change direction and remember it is for freedom He has set us free? It takes courage to stay free after you have been set free.