Paid the Price?
by Mark Alan on Dec.17, 2008, under General
This is my first post. It is my post, all mine. You may post a reply but you may not post in my post. I get to share what I want to share although it will actually be what God wants me to share. For I am not my own but I belong to Him, I’ve been bought with a price.
WOW! Think about that for a minute…no seriously, think about that for a minute. You’ve been purchased. Paid for. God didn’t make payments for you but instead paid for you in full with everything He had. How can one give His life for another? It is a tough thing to comprehend and it is especially difficult for the majority of us to accept.
“Now, wait a minute! I HAVE accepted Christ” you say to me. “Yea great, so what? I reply, my question is, “have you accepted His payment for you in the form of dying to yourself?” Sure He has paid for your salvation and it is a free gift of grace but have you truly received His payment by “taking up your cross, dying to yourself and living for Him?”
It is a free gift BUT it will cost you EVERYTHING. He paid it all…what price have you paid to recieve it all?
February 12th, 2009 on 7:47 am
It seems the price I pay has increased drastically since I’ve met you! Lol. I still had some dying to do even after all these years. I may not be happy to do it, but I know that the prize, the relationship with Christ, is worth any price I could pay. There is actually some joy in the death also. I feel the pain of the flesh and the elation of the spirit. The spirit’s elation over rides the pain of the flesh and I press on. Being real is the hardest thing I have ever done. For many years, I have allowed the world to see what they wanted, or what I thought they wanted to see. Now it’s just me, no facade and it’s good enough! It’s good enough because God made me, and planned me to be this way! Wow, the pressure that relieves. I don’t have to make myself into something pleasing, God has already made me pleasing to Him.