♥♥♥ Redemption Is Buying Back!

Thus says The LORD, ...Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name.  You are MINE. - Isaiah 43:1
You were redeemed not with silver or gold but with the precious blood of JESUS CHRIST, ... who through HIM believe in GOD. - 1 Peter 1:18-21

Quentin spent hours constructing a magnificent model yacht. He carved the hull from a block of wood, made the masts, and with his mother's help the sails. One day, at last, the yacht was finished. The only thing to do now was to test it on the nearby canal. It worked! The breeze distended the saiks, and the boat floated. But suddenly three fellows appeared and jostled Quentin, seized the yacht and made off. The boy was flustered and sad. Some days later, passing the shop of a second-hand dealer, Quentin could not believe his eyes. There was his boat displayed in the shop window."Sir, that's my boat. I made it. Give it back to me, please! "  - Certainly, young man, " the dealer replied, "if you pay the price on the tag. I bought it only last week from a couple of boys." How could he get together the sum asked?  His parents when they heard of their son's desire to get back what he had spend days making, were only too happy to put up the money for him. He rushed to the shop and bought back the boat he had so enthusiastically made.

This account reminds us of our own story. GOD created our race with so much of love and in HIS OWN image. Man was the work of HIS OWN Hands. But by disobeying GOD, man became the slave of sin and satan. To end this bondage GOD paid the highest possible price: HE GAVE HIS ONLY PRECIOUS SON JESUS CHRIST, WHO DIED AT CALVARY TO PAY THE PENALTY FOR SIN, WHICH SEPARATED US FROM GOD. By faith in HIS work everyone can not only enter into a relationship with GOD but actually know HIM as FATHER and JESUS CHRIST as the ONE who redeemed us by paying the highest price anyone could ever pay for the worst of sinners like us.

Taken from the book, The Good Seed.

Now let us ask ourselves this question. Was there any need for GOD to pay any price at all for something that was already HIS? The ONE who could command the stormy seas to quieten down with just a word, the one who commands the countless of HIS Angel armies, and before whom the mountains skip like rams, The ONE who can make even the stones praise HIM, could HE not with just a word make the people HE created do anything that HE wanted, make us HIS slaves. But HE did not do that. HE wanted us to come to HIM and love HIM willingly. And for that, HE payed such a great price, simply because HE loved us so much. The perfect definition of love is given by what The FATHER did for you and me, and by what JESUS CHRIST did for us in the cross . As The BIBLE tells us, There is no greater love than this, FOR while we were still sinners, The GOD of the heavens and the earth and under the earth, send HIS only precious SON, JESUS CHRIST, to die in our place so that our sins could be dealt with once and for all.

I was inspired by The HOLY SPIRIT in writing this. So the writer was and is The HOLY SPIRIT, I'm just the pen HE has used to get the message across.