The Gift We Could Never Afford

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 3:23 NLT)

What do you have today you wouldn’t have had it not been given to you? Think of all the gifts you’ve received over the years, most of which you’ve forgotten about long ago. What’s the most elaborate gift you’ve ever received? A car? House? An inheritance? Extensive trip?

The value of any gift is miniscule in comparison to the cost of a single drop of my Savior’s blood! “Yeh, but you don’t know the value of my inheritance!” No, you don’t know how much my Savior’s blood is worth! Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1:18-19: “For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom He paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.”

The word that Peter used that is translated “precious” is a Greek word that means of incalculable worth. It’s impossible to set a value to it!  If you’re a believer in Jesus today, the gift of the blood of your Savior is the most valued treasure you possess. But if you’re not a believer. If you’ve not yielded your life and allegiance to the Lord Jesus, the blood He shed on the Cross was for your salvation also.

Some will hear that and hang their head in shame, realizing they don’t deserve such an invaluable sacrifice. Here’s the good news: no one does! None of us deserves what Jesus did, but that’s the point! He loves us so much He was willing to pay a debt He didn’t owe to give us a gift we could never afford. But it gets even better!

It’s a life for a life – His sinless, blameless life for our sinful, guilt-ridden life! A really bad deal for Him, right? But that’s the beauty of Jesus’ gift – He pours Himself into us in the Person of His Holy Spirit, enabling us to put the sin and shame of our life behind us in order that He might begin to live His life out through us. There’s no greater privilege than to be a child of God, filled and empowered by His Spirit.

It’s not something we could ever earn or deserve, it’s a gift of love that is offered from a heart that longs for us to come home to Him. We can think about it, ponder it, weigh our options, but one day each of us will stand before the Creator of the Universe and the issue He will ponder is: “What did you do with My Son?” And there will only be one of two answers: “I rejected Him!” Or “I received Him as my Lord and Savior.”

It will be pointless on that day to say: “I really wanted to!” “I thought about it a lot!” “I just let everything else crowd Him out!”

Receive Him today, you’ll be eternally grateful for the free gift of salvation that pays the debt for your sin you could never in eternity ever pay yourself. Go to Ron Hutchcraft’s website by clicking here and let him walk you through how to give your life to the Lord Jesus. It’s time for action!

Please don’t allow Satan to trap you in some form of the “pity party” excuse that sees how sinful you are and that you don’t deserve to be forgiven. That’s true, you absolutely do not. No one does and that’s the point. That’s why it’s called a free gift of grace! Receive Him today!

it’s time for ACTION!

Blessings, Ed 😊