Life is not always about being right or wrong. When all considerations are accounted, life is about positive and negative. A positive can cancel a negative. Two negatives make more negative. Only two positives make more positive when added. If this principle is applied to our lives, we can readily see that adding a positive to any situation will cancel a negative. It doesn't matter if we are talking to someone in conversation or dealing with a problem at work.
If we divide truth this way, we end up in one of three places: Where we are. Where we might have gone. Where we don't want to be. How do we see this in light of what Christ did for us on the cross?
Only the love of God can bring forgiveness and positive in multiples. In multiplication, two like signs become a positive sign. With the multiplication of two negatives, we are walking backwards in a positive direction away from debt. Why? In mathematics this is true because we are walking the numbers in opposite, but in the direction of positive. It is easy to draw the conclusion to the gospel of Christ. Mankind is fallen and in debt to sin. Jesus suffered the cross as a negative multiplied to our negative. This then becomes the positive of our salvation. Jesus paid our debt by walking the debt backwards to positive.
Consider this example: In mathematics, if you owe three people $10, then you are negative $30 (3 X -10 = $-30). If the lenders then say, "We forgive you for this debt because we love you," then you are free from that debt by another negative. You have just had three subtractions of -10, making you three positives of $10 (-3 X -$10). Your debt is -30 + 30 = Zero. Jesus died a horrible death to pay our debt, walking us back to a positive value.
The Hebrew people see time in an interesting way. They see the past as in front. This is because it has already happened and can be seen. The future is behind us because we cannot see it coming. The direction is not a temporal direction, but the direction we face. Jesus faced us in the opposite direction by allowing us to see our future from our past. We walk backward in a positive direction toward our future. This is how a negative and a negative make a positive.
Love God and love your neighbor. This is the direction of peace and a positive future.
Tetelestai - Paid in Full
Written by Stephen T. McClard
