Have we really ever considered . . .
“If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
(1 Peter 1: 17-21 NASB)
knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you
who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.”
Have we really ever considered how we became redeemed?
Think for a moment of the earthly items that we use to purchase the things we need.
We use silver and gold to buy the things that we need for our homes, for our families, and for our enjoyment, but all of those purchases have no staying power. At the end of our lives, there is nothing that we can carry with us into our eternity. Everything is perishable here on earth.
Thus, our redemption could not be purchased with something that our ancestors could ever buy or leave behind for us to claim. The price for our salvation required a far greater cost—the precious drops of blood of a Savior.
Have we really ever considered the actual cost?
- There had to be “a lamb unblemished and spotless, . . .”
- There had to be “the blood of Christ.”
- The Messiah was the plan from the beginning, “foreknown before the foundation of the world, . . .”
- The Savior appeared “for the sake of you.”
- The ONLY way to God’s salvation was through Him—JESUS—by which we became “believers in God, . . .”
- For our salvation, God provided the ultimate sacrificial lamb, crucified upon the cross, and then raised from the dead by God.
- We needed to accept this gospel of truth, believe in Jesus Christ, God’s Son, & confess our sins, “so that your faith and hope are in God.”
Have we really ever considered how we became redeemed and what the love of God provided as the ultimate cost of our salvation?
If we are totally honest, we have not.
However, from today forward, we can “count the cost” and PRAISE the LORD FOR HIS MOST AMAZING GIFT of GRACE.