“The
cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” ― Henry
David Thoreau, Walden
Scripture
Text: (ROM 8:31B-34)
Brothers and sisters:
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son
but handed him over for us all,
how will he not also give us everything else along with him?
Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones?
It is God who acquits us, who will condemn?
Christ Jesus it is who died—or, rather, was raised—
who also is at the right hand of God,
who indeed intercedes for us.
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son
but handed him over for us all,
how will he not also give us everything else along with him?
Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones?
It is God who acquits us, who will condemn?
Christ Jesus it is who died—or, rather, was raised—
who also is at the right hand of God,
who indeed intercedes for us.
Christ became human to free us from
our sins, not from our humanity. Underneath the stains and tarnish of the life
of each of us, there lies the beauty of a human person—body and soul—created in
the Image and likeness of God.
God has deemed your person—your
self—worth saving from sin, and Christ was willing to purchase your self at the
price of His own life: at the price of His Body and Blood, soul and divinity.
So………Make your life count for
something bigger than just yourself!
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