run on credit and debt, and most of us for a large part of our lives have commitments such as mortgages and hire-purchase agreements. We find it hard enough to meet these without taking on someone else’s debt. We should only do so if we are quite sure of our ability to meet it should the need arise. Let us conduct our financial transactions with great care. Debt is a terrible thing. (For Suretyship see also 11:15, 17:18 and 22:26–27.) What has Jesus done for us in this connection that we