The Free gift of God, it wasn't free for Him

 

We have taught it is the Free Gift of God, and God freely gives, but it was not without cost. A Gift by definition is free, the one who provides the gift has something of value that they are offering to you at no cost to yourself, but generally it cost them something.

The Gift of God as mentioned in Roman 6:23 is the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, He was beaten, abused, rejected, by man and God, that we might have the chance to be redeemed.

Why did He do that?

He SO LOVED the world. God’s Love is so great that when He got rejected in the garden, He kept going, when He got rejected by the Israelites who wanted a king, a man to rule over them He kept going. When He got rejected by Israel for idols, He kept going. Then when He came and walked this earth for 33 years, was rejected by both man and the Father, while suspended between Heaven and Earth, He kept going.

He gave us the Scriptures, men chosen to tell us, His Spirit, His Love, His own physical life here on this earth, and His time spent calling us to Him.

What have we done for Him in return and in comparison to all that He has done for us?

Well we have taken the gift….it might take me a minute to think of what we have done for Him.

You know the prize He gets for all His loyalty and Love? Us. That’s it.

Yet still we can not be bothered to read and study, we can not be bothered to give Him our time. We just can’t be bothered.

What would you do if your gift was so undervalued and mistreated?