This post is part of the Five Minute Friday blog link-up! Each week Kate Motaung provides a one-word writing prompt for participants to free write for five minutes flat and share their work with the online community. This week’s prompt is COST.
The life of one perfect, sinless Son.
A price the Father that loves us deeply was willing to pay for our salvation (1 Corinthians 6:20).
Yours and mine.
Salvation.
Living a forgiven life and then for eternity in heaven with that perfect, sinless Son.
The cost was high, but He paid the price.
The life of one perfect, sinless Son.
A cost predetermined by the Father that valued both of us that much and more.
God chose to save us by sacrificing His only Son in our place.
The life of one perfect, sinless Son.
Salvation.
It’s already been paid for, so if you haven’t already, please choose to receive it.
That’s our cost.
Receiving Jesus means giving up the old self to make way for the work of the Holy Spirit in you (Colossians 3:8-10). He will change your heart and make you into a new person in Christ. This good work begins as soon as we accept Jesus (Galatians 4:6).
This God and Father who planned eternity with us in mind, He’s already made an investment on our behalf.
You and me and all those coming before and after us.
He is patient and will wait even as our last moments here begin to slip away (2 Peter 3:9). But seek Him soon, Friends, because our days are numbered (Psalm 139:16).
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16
We don’t know the day or the hour so there is no time to waste.
Salvation.
“Do You think that this is worth it, Dad?
Do You think it really pays?
Don’t You think they’ll all go bad,
back to idolatrous ways?
I know about old Abe and Isaac,
but this ain’t quite the same.
You know the thing this story lacks,
and there’ll be a world of pain.
I don’t know why You love these jerks,
they’re lying, lecherous, savage…
but I guess ‘worth saving’ is a perq
of being in Your Image.
Well, OK, let’s get the world reborn…
but could I pass on the crown of thorns?”
That’s a tough one, understanding all the un-understandable things that happen every day. How can this one be standing next to that one in heaven when this one did that and that one did not. I’m thankful that we don’t have to understand.
Thanks, Andrew. God bless you.
Thank you, Jesus, for paying the price for our salvation.
Yes! Thank you, Jesus.
Yes. He did pay the price and we are blessed and favored for it! thank you for helping us to remember what He’s done for us! you neighbor FMF #24
Thanks for visiting and commenting. This truth is our anchor.
thank you for reminding us. the cost was high, but HE paid the price. Thanks be to God for His priceless gift to all who accept His free gift. Thank you for sharing.
Amen, Sista! Thanks for stopping by.