A hymn that speaks of our debt to mercy alone, comes to my mind when reading on a poster in town , “GET A HANDLE ON YOUR DEBTS.”

THE BIBLE SAYS: “For he love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”

Trying to find the hymn in two hymn books is without success.

Because I follow Romans 13:8 where we are told , “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another …”, I don’t need to get a handle on my debts because I have none; but I know that the Bible teaches in Romans 13:8 that my debt is to love my neighbour and that a hymn says that I am “a debtor to mercy alone.”

At the present time I am reading a book on ROMANS by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and on the page I am reading today he is not only quoting a hymn by Toplady, but also by Robert Robinson. Toplady says, “A debtor to mercy alone,: and  R. Robinson says, “O to grace how much a debtor …”

The Lord is giving us more than we ask for.