In this 49-part series, I\u2019m exploring what it means to be DEBT FREE\u2014in body, mind, and spirit<\/strong>. The idea comes from an Old Testament law called the Year of Jubilee.<\/p>\n Before we get into the heart of it, let\u2019s pause and reflect: how many areas of our lives have become soaked in contempt?<\/strong><\/p>\n Relationships that once brought joy now feel like a slow-burning hell.<\/strong><\/p>\n The job we once prayed for now weighs us down with grief.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mystery fades, and what was once magical becomes mundane.<\/p>\n Familiarity has worn off the shine\u2014and left behind a bitter taste.<\/p>\n When Jesus arrived on the scene, the world wasn\u2019t far off from this state.<\/p>\n Rome was expanding.<\/p>\n Religion was booming.<\/p>\n Everything felt hollow and hopeless.<\/p>\n Then Jesus walked into the temple, read from Isaiah about the Day of Atonement\u2014and boldly declared, \u201cToday this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing\u201d (Luke 4:21, ESV).<\/strong><\/p>\n That moment was a collision of heaven and earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n The forgotten were finally being seen.<\/p>\n The wolves cloaked in leadership were being exposed.<\/p>\n It was Jubilee\u2014a reset button for the soul of humanity.<\/p>\n God had come to declare Good News.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go back to the meaning of Jubilee in the Old Testament.<\/strong><\/p>\n Every forty-nine years, a trumpet would sound.<\/p>\n 1. Land was returned.<\/p>\n 2. Slaves were set free.<\/p>\n 3. Debts were cancelled.<\/p>\n 4. Those stripped of identity, agency, and hope were restored.<\/p>\n But how do we find our own Jubilee, when the world keeps demanding payment?<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Debts to loved ones we\u2019ve disappointed.<\/p>\n 2. Debts to our own conscience that we\u2019ve violated.<\/p>\n 3. Debts to society, always calling, always extracting.<\/p>\n Imagine a moment in your life\u2014physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually\u2014where you are completely DEBT FREE.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the goal of this series: laying a foundation of forty-nine principles for living independently and indefinitely in God\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n But it starts with one crucial step: acknowledging our debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n In my simple yet heartfelt eBook, BLESSED \u2013 8 Steps to Wholeness<\/a>,<\/p>\n I titled this blog Familiarity Breeds Contempt for a reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n As humans, we have a tendency to despise what becomes too familiar.<\/p>\n Take my opening blog #1 FELLOWSHIP<\/a> as an example.<\/p>\n We began as a world wide network of broken but hopeful individuals, passionate about impacting our world.<\/p>\n But over time\u2014through fatigue, success, and missteps\u2014we started to turn on each other.<\/p>\n We formed cliques.<\/p>\n We gossiped.<\/p>\n We tried to control everything.<\/p>\n And slowly, we became what we had once promised not to be.<\/p>\n We became too familiar with the extraordinary.<\/p>\n We tried to bottle up God\u2019s glory and market it like a product.<\/p>\n Instead of being awestruck, we became entitled.<\/p>\n Who do I blame?<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. No one.<\/p>\n 2. We were all ignorant\u2014each of us complicit.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get personal.<\/strong><\/p>\n Why do so many marriages fail?<\/p>\n Why do families grow toxic?<\/p>\n Why do businesses that begin with vision end in greed and ruin?<\/p>\n Often, it\u2019s the byproduct of overfamiliar relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n What begins in loyalty and unity can become a breeding ground for contempt.<\/p>\n I recall an incident with the head of an organisation I gave two decades of my life to\u2014time, money, and heart.<\/p>\n One day, I was treated with such coldness, dismissed without any effort to follow the very biblical protocols the leadership preached.<\/p>\n As the leader he had become too familiar with his own success\u2014and I, like many others, was now dispensable.<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t blame him.<\/p>\n His methods built a successful structure.<\/p>\n But along the way, people\u2019s dignity was lost, and pain was dismissed.<\/p>\n And honestly?<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve done the same.<\/p>\n In business.<\/p>\n In relationships.<\/p>\n In ambition.<\/p>\n In winning.<\/p>\n But victory without reverence leads to emptiness. I\u2019ve been there, and don\u2019t intend on going back. <\/p>\n Over the last few years, God has graciously walked me back through those painful memories.<\/p>\n Moments where I took things\u2014and people\u2014for granted.<\/p>\n Especially those closest to me.<\/p>\n And I\u2019ve returned to the place of Jubilee.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Every debt.<\/p>\n 2. Every offense.<\/p>\n 3. Every bitter thought.<\/p>\n 4. Every deep fear.<\/p>\n All of it\u2014I\u2019ve laid it down at the feet of Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n And in return?<\/p>\n I\u2019ve found freedom to worship.<\/p>\n Freedom to rejoice.<\/p>\n Freedom to laugh, dance, shout, and sing.<\/p>\n Jesus is alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n So, stop accumulating debt in your body, mind, and spirit.<\/p>\n Lay it all at the feet of Jesus.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be a victim.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be addicted to winning.<\/p>\n Instead, live in God\u2019s favour<\/a>.<\/p>\n Roaming Chaplain <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/roamingchaplain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/928ac6a6-0806-4988-bcdb-a644ac20b5f5-2.png?w=683\")
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