I don’t know why I never connected the dots before, but “mort” means death.
A mort is the sound played on a horn when an animal is killed while hunting. Then there are other “mort” words that deal with death.
Mortician.
Mortuary.
Mortality.
Mortgage.
Literally, a mortgage payment is a payment toward the killing of debt. (Full discloser, this makes me want to do the Braveheart freedom yell when I make my mortgage payment!).
It also shines a greater light on what Jesus accomplished for us on the cross. Because of sin, we were the original walking dead trying to crawl out from beneath the weight of a debt too great to pay. But Jesus put death to death. He paid what we couldn’t afford in order to give us what we didn’t deserve.
[Tweet “Jesus put death to death. He paid what we couldn’t afford in order to give us what we didn’t deserve.”]Have you ever wondered what you could do with the money you pay toward your mortgage? Of course you have. You’ve imagined how good it would feel to buy someone’s meal or pay someone’s utility bill because you had the freedom to bless others since your debt was paid.
It’s the same with our sin. We don’t have to keep making payments because of it. Jesus paid it all, and that means there’s nothing left for us to pay. Our debt — and the death that it brought — is dead. Jesus put death to death and opened the door to a life of freedom that we now get to pass along!
