Bought with a Price

Imagine you find a car that you want to buy. You go to the dealer and tell him that you want to buy it. The dealer comes back and tells you that the price is one million dollars! One million dollars for a car? Andy, you've lost your mind... But, that's the price. If you want the car it will cost one million dollars. Anyway, you love this car so much that you consider it worth the price.

So, there you go, even though the car is not nearly worth a million dollars, you buy this car for that price, and go to the dealer to pick it up. You sign all the paper work and get the license plates, and you're ready to go. You finally get the keys, the anticipation is over, and you start the car up, and begin to drive... life is good.

But then, you realize that there's no steering wheel in the car! You go back to the dealer and ask him about it. He tells you that you did not pay enough to get the steering wheel too! What?! A million dollars for this cheap junker of a car, and that's not enough money to get the steering wheel too?

I Corinthians 6:20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Ok, now imagine that the car is really pretty much worthless. The car doesn't have a steering wheel; there are no tires on it; the engine has 350,000 miles on it, and hasn't run in a couple years; the hood doesn't latch; the doors are barely hanging on; and it leaks all the fluids you can imagine.

Yet, someone comes in, and pays WAY more than one million dollars to buy the car anyway.

That's us.

God loved the world so much, that He paid a price that is just invaluable. He gave His only begotten Son. Why? To buy, to redeem, this old clunker, called Andy.

What does Andy do in return?

"Sorry, God, You didn't pay enough to have the steering wheel too."

... really? ...

just a thought