You have a price tag hanging from you. God put it there. It has a very large figure on it. What is that figure? It is the figure of the cross. On Good Friday we remember what it cost for us to be forgiven and reconciled with God. That cost is represented by the most common symbol of the Christian faith: the cross. God came to us in Jesus Christ and paid for our guilt by suffering and dying on a cross. Think about the magnitude of this cost. Jesus Christ is the incarnation of God who gave himself over to unimaginable suffering and a cruel humiliating death! A great cost, however, is indicative of great value. Something with a big price tag is assumed to be valuable. The enormity of the price that God paid for our forgiveness points to the great value God places upon those he wants to forgive. God paid this price, not for good people (because there are no perfectly good people in the world), but for sinners. You may not feel like a good person, but your moral-spiritual state does not detract from your inherent value. You are valuable to God. How valuable? Your value is indicated by what it cost God to pay for your forgiveness. How much is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ worth? No number or measure can fathom such worth. So too with your value to God. Your value is beyond measure since God gave everything to bring you back to himself. That is the price tag that is hanging from you. You should turn it over and look at it more often.
Thank God for the price he paid for you in Christ.
Read John 3:16-21
