Debt—Christ Has Paid It

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A dissipated Russian officer having become hopelessly involved in debt, sat down in desperation and wrote out a list of his indebtedness. Summing up the whole, he wrote in despair at the bottom, “Who can pay such a debt as this?” That night the emperor passed through the barracks in disguise and seeing the paper beside the sleeping man, read it, and wrote at the end of the question the one word Nicholas! In the morning the officer wondered who had done it, but all doubts vanished when at ten o’clock the emperor sent the cash necessary for the heavy payment. Unsaved reader, you are in debt also. Think of your sins, how much you owe your Lord, and when in despair you say, “Who can pay such a debt?” then whisper the name of Jesus. He can pay it. He has paid it.
Jesus paid it all,
Yes, all the debt you owe!

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