It is true that God paid a huge price for us. We could never pay that back. Nor does he want us to. Like the man who owed an enormous debt in the story of the "wicked servant" that Jesus told (Matt 18), our debt has been completely erased as soon as we accept its payment! We do not owe it!
But, as we also learn in the story, God wants that to transform us! He wants us to see the incredible beauty of who he is, and be completely besotted with that! So overwhelmingly in love with the character of him, that we just want to soak it all in! And it's when our eyes and minds are filled with him that we begin to be changed into that beautiful character too.
We don't get there by forcing behaviours. We are simply changed by being filled with his loveliness.
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