Over the easter weekend we celebrate what God did for us in Jesus Christ. Let’s take a moment then to reflect on the sheer magnitude of this. The infinite eternal God became incarnate as a man in Jesus to be tortured and killed on a Roman cross. He did this to pay the price to redeem us from our guilt and bring us back to God. What an unfathomably great price he paid! Now, having paid such a price, God’s priority is to get what he paid for. And that is you and me. If you feel that your sins and failures are very great then be assured that the magnitude of the worth of Christ’s death outweighs the magnitude of your failure. If it is true that your sins are very great, that doesn’t mean that God will reject you. On the contrary, it only makes you more ‘expensive’. The more things cost us the more we value them. If you lose something that was expensive to buy, then you are all the more determined to get it back. If your sins are very great, then so too is the redemption price tag on you. Christ paid that price once and for all. His resurrection confirmed this. Now he comes to collect those whom he has purchased. And he especially seeks the expensive ones. We see this in Jesus’ ministry. Jesus sought after the worst sinners above all. He sought them because they were the expensive ones. This didn’t make God want them less. It made him want them more. Are you an expensive one? If so, then know that God is coming after you.
Thank God for redeeming you.
Read Matthew 9:9-13 and Luke 15:8-10.
