debtors then become simply good investments.
LOVE FREES FROM DEBT
As Paul declared, the key to freedom from debt is love that seeks the good of the neighbor first, last, and always. For with love goes that respect, that honor which is a perpetual magnet for riches, even though they are passed along as rapidly as received and no one may appear to be rich through accumulation. The truly rich are those who have plenty to spend and who spend that plenty, not those who have plenty to save and who save it. The miser is not rich. The prodigal is nearer to prosperity, even in his ignorance, than the frugal person who never learns to spend wisely.
Perfect love casts out fear as to one’s continuance in prosperity, and guides one into the way where indebtedness is no burden but a convenient and harmonious arrangement, where each is benefited and each is sure of the outcome.
But the debts that we made in folly and selfishness, that hang over us like a pall and drag upon us from the past so that there seems no deliverance— what of them? And what of those which, it may seem, can only be paid with a lifetime of labor and yet for which no prospect of funds lies ahead of us?
FORGIVING OUR DEBTORS
“Though your sins may be as scarlet, they shall
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