One of the definitions of “sequester” is to take
legal possession of somebody’s property until a debt that person owes is paid. It seems backward that a government would take possession of jobs by budget cuts for their own debt, but that is another topic. The national debt may never be paid, it seems beyond measure, out of control, and the size of it it is incomprehensible. Kind of like sin.
Being sequestered was the best thing
that ever happened to me. The debt of
sin had to be paid and I could never pay it.
Somebody without debt had to pay my debt. Somebody without sin had to die for the
penalty of my sin. So, a transaction
happened. Jesus, God, the only sinless
One, died in my place to pay my debt of
sin and rose again to give me life eternal.
The only appropriate response is to give him legal possession of all
that I am. That is a permanent sequester
of a powerful, wonderful, divine nature.
“You are not your own; you were bought at a price” (1 Cor. 6:19b-20a).
The only debt remaining is the response of love.
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the
continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has
fulfilled the law” (Rom.
