A December text: ‘Thanks for your help. Have a very Merry Christmas’. A common enough message perhaps – but not from a debtor to a bailiff.

Graham’s debts had spiralled out of control. He’d counted 246 letters demanding payment. Then came a knock on his Wycombe door.

It was the bailiff. Ron. Ron’s client had instructed him to demand full and immediate payment from Graham. But, as a follower of Jesus, Ron sought to be both wise and gracious in his work: good service for creditors, hope for debtors. That morning, as most mornings, Ron stopped in at McDonalds to prayerfully reflect on God’s word. What would he do?

Ron phoned his client, clarifying what Graham could actually afford to pay. It wasn’t an easy conversation, but he was able to go back to Graham with a gift of gold – an £18,000 reduction.

Come 24th December, the client had received the money, Graham cleared his debt, and Ron had a very Merry Christmas.

At LICC, we love stories like that: God working through his people out in his world. And we know one of the main ways God’s people develop a fresh imagination for their everyday frontlines is by gaining fresh insight into the richness of God’s word.

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The grace and wisdom of Christ to you this season,
and through you, to those he brings your way.

Mark