Thanksgiving
You are eternally a debtor to grace. If you have been shown grace and attempt to repay, your attempting is in vain. You may attempt to repay to escape feeling unworthy of grace. This is not unworthiness, this is pride. Humility produces thanksgiving. You have nothing else to offer to the Lord except thanksgiving.
Ephesians 5:3-5 speaks of various sins that Christians are not to have a hint of and even warn that those that continue in them have “no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” They have no inheritance because those that continue in them have nothing to be thankful for. They lack the forgiveness of sins, and have not been saved through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
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The state of being a debtor to grace is one of sweetness. The inward senses when someone lavishes solicited and unsolicited gifts are of the highest order. Our souls are bursting with the a abundance of thanksgiving because Christ, our best portion, has been lavished to take what is lacking and bring it to fullness.
Our indebtedness is a rest for the Lord has dealt bountifully. For the thankful there is no better place to be than in the contentment of the best portion. There is no better thing to be than a debtor of grace.
“What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? I will lift my cup of salvation and call upon the name of the LORD.” - Psalm 116:12,13