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Let no debt remain outstanding, 
except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8 NIV
Paul has just told his readers to pay their taxes, and uses money - the owing of money - again as a metaphor - a debt to pay, which at the same time doesn't get paid...a lot like taxes it seems...

Does it connect with our Big Ideas from earlier in the letter?

"...I urge you...to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice...this is your true and proper worship. 
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
Romans 12:1-2

Could this transforming worship, this non conformity to the patterns of the world be as simple as loving others?
Could it be that all of The Law is fulfilled by simply loving others?
Could it all be that simple?
(Not that loving others is an easy or simple thing to do)
What changes when we love people - not as a transaction but as a way of being?
Simply loving people takes all kinds of forms, some big, mostly small, mostly unseen, unheard, unknown to any but our Heavenly Father, and it's a way of being we are all invited into...
#letters
#lovepeople
#simplyloving

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