Romans 13:8–"Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law."
I was recently listening to a radio conversation in which the guest told the host, "I don't owe anybody anything." To which the host replied, "that's right. I feel the same way myself."
It occurred to me that many people live their lives with this same understanding, that they owe nothing to no one. And even if we might not say as much we probably live our lives like it.
But God has something else for us. he says that we do owe other people. We owe them our love. To be sure, this is a simple but profound thing; however, it is also an oft-neglected debt. Truly, we do owe everyone around us our love because, at its core, our love is a gift from God. Because our love comes as a gift from God it is out of our devotion that we deliver our love to others as an expression of our love for what God has done. That's the least that we owe.
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