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Thoughts on today’s verse…
If value is determined by price, then we are incredibly valuable to God. Our Father took heaven’s most precious treasures and adopted us into His family by redeeming us from sin, evil, and death through the sacrifice of Jesus. Silver and gold pale in comparison to that value. Without this salvation, we were in trouble. we were stuck “A hollow way of life handed down to us”. To know the depth of that hollow way of life, we need to remember who we were before Christ (Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 5:6):
- Dead in our trespasses and sins.
- Following the ways of the evil ruler of the spiritual realm, who is at work among the disobedient.
- To satisfy the desires of our flesh.
- Naturally an object of God’s wrath.
- Powerless and unrighteous sinners living as enemies of God.
But God chose to redeem us through love “The precious blood of Christ, the Lamb without blemish or blemish.” Now that we have been redeemed, Christ presents us before God “Holy, without blemish and without blemish in his sight” (Colossians 1:22) We have been redeemed, we have been freed from our slavery to the emptiness of the sinful life chosen by the world. So, dear brothers and sisters, let us live as God created us: valuable and precious to our Father!
Video commentary…
We have included Phil to collect Video from four years ago as an added blessing in our poem today:
My prayer…
Holy God, may I be more aware of my priceless value to you each day. May my words, thoughts and actions be permeated with Your sense of my worth, and not with my regrets for a past life wasted in the empty ways of the world; Not so that I may appear important to others, but so that I may display Your holiness and righteous character in my life, thereby glorifying You for the incredible gift of grace in Jesus. Through which I pray. Amen.
