Read Pro. 11:15
Maybe the banks should have taken this advise. If you lend to a stranger, then you will end up hurting. I wonder what would have happened if banks decided to do more homework and look deeper into a persons past dealings with loans and were more select in who they gave their money to. I don't think they would be in the shape they are in. I saw a house that a very rich man built with 90,000 square feet of house. He had opulent rooms. His master bedroom was much larger than my whole house with a huge skylight in the roof. It had every amenity you could think of and all the opulence of King Solomon's house. The owner ran out of money before he got the walls up and went bankrupt. The bank was trying to sell it "as is" for 75mil. That is the kind of thing that brings our nation down. We end up paying for someone else's folly and bad banking.
The end of the scripture says that if you hate becoming a bondsman you will be confident and sure. What if this man who was building this huge house would have paid for it as he built it instead of borrowing. He might not have had as large of a house but he would have had a house when it was all over and he could be proud of it instead of ashamed.
Lord, we are all indebted to you and you stamp us "paid in full". Thank you for the blood of Jesus that never runs out or loses its power.
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