Got a minute?

Jesus said, “Simon, got a minute? I want to tell you something.”

“I got all the time in the world, speak on.”

“Two guys owed Sam some money. Sam let them both off the hook. One of them owed 10 times the amount of the other guy. Think about it for a moment, who felt like he won the $1.9 billion lottery?”

“That’s easy enough, the guy who owed ten times as much.”

“You got it. You know the right answers, but you aren’t putting your smarts to good use. You are in a tizzy because of this hurting gal—yet I came to your house as a guest and you didn’t even give me a hug, offer me a coke, or tell me where the bathroom is.”

Then turning to the alabaster lady… “Miss, your sins are forgiven.”

When I apply this story to myself, the only thing I see differently is that I am as amazed with the debt He forgave in me, and even more so as I project forward from that day in April of 1974 to today in November 2022, who I would be—the hurts, the scars, the pains, the confusion I who would be Marcos today, wow.

I won the $1.9 billion lottery, and then some!