Don't agree to guarantee another person's debt or put up security for someone else. 

If you can't pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you.

Proverbs 22:26-27 NLT

With the benefit of our place in history we can glimpse Jesus in this proverb. 

Jesus knew the price that he would pay for guaranteeing our debt.

There's a vulnerability in losing your bed, having no where to sleep, and Jesus knew that too (see Matthew 10). Jesus knew there was a greater price to pay, and paid it. 

He was the only one who could. 

And as a result, we are set free. 

Free from the debt my sin creates. 

I don't always "get" that, don't always grasp the grace of that, the love that is woven into what Jesus did, but that doesn't make it any less true. 

On the other side of truth is freedom. 

Freedom from having the burden of being enough, being good enough, because my forgiveness, your forgiveness, ours, does not depend on us. 

Everything was snatched from Jesus, yet he entered into this world, this life, and went to the cross because he wanted to, because we are worth it. 

When we don't think we're worth anything, Jesus actions say otherwise. They tell a different story, a story of truth and grace and hope. 

A story of love. 

We are dearly loved.

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