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Thursday, March
31, 2022
"Bought
With A Price"
Message
summary: As those who have been bought with a price
let us glorify God with our bodies, for that is our
ultimate worth!
"You are not your own;
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your
bodies" (1 Corinthians 6:19,20).
Late yesterday morning after sending out
our Daily Encouragement we attended a Lenten luncheon at a
local church. Brooksyne saw me walking out the door and
noticed a small red price sticker on my vest. She quickly
removed it and checked the price which was a whopping 25
cents. Now I certainly think I'm worth more than that! Or am
I?In an article titled "How
Much Are the Elements in Your Body Worth" a "Ph.D. Chemistry
Expert" named Anne Marie Helmenstine asserts the going rate
for the worth of elements in a body is just $1. (Of course
this is before the recent inflation.)
However, the
article "How Much Is A Human Body Part Worth?" determines
the value of our body parts for transplants may be up to 45
million but that seems pretty incredible to me. For certain
we are not offering financial advice and would not recommend
trying to make your millions this way!
We regularly donate our
blood which replenishes in 56 days, but apart from that we
want to keep what we have to the end, if possible, although
we do commend those who donate a kidney (you can live with
just one) or a part of their liver (which grows back).
When I reach the end on this
side of eternity to my knowledge my body will have no
recycle value. In fact it will cost a pretty penny to
dispose of the physical part of me that's left (I won't need
that part anymore).
But what am I really worth?
And this applies to each of you reading this and the
billions who will never read it.
Paul wrote to the
Corinthians, "You were bought at a price. Therefore
honor God with your bodies". This is speaking of
redemption. Simply put, "Christ paid a debt He did not
owe and we owed a debt we could not pay". (See song
below)
The Wycliffe Bible
Commentary points out that "bought" is in the aorist tense
and refers to Golgotha, where the price was paid once for
all. "The figure is that of sacral manumission, whereby a
slave, by paying the price of his freedom into the temple
treasury, was regarded thereafter as the slave of the god
and no longer the slave of his earthly master."
As Kenneth Wuest puts it,
"Our
Lord’s precious, outpoured blood was the ransom paid to
redeem slaves of sin from that slavery. His death satisfied
the just demands of the High Court of Heaven, paying the
penalty for the sinner, and making a way whereby a righteous
God could be just and at the same time the justifier of the
believing sinner."
My worth of ultimate importance is based on the price paid by Jesus Christ at the cross. My value is fixed because the ransom was fully paid for my sins.
"Therefore glorify God in your body". God gave us a body to live in during our earthly existence. Our purpose in this life is to glorify Him in our body. As the great Isaac Watts hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" concludes,
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my Soul, my Life,
my All.
As those who have been bought with a price let us glorify God with our bodies, for that is our ultimate worth!
Be
encouraged today, (Hebrews 3:13)
Stephen
& Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer: Father, as You already
know my worth is not in what I own, it's
not in the strength of my flesh and
bone, but it's in the costly wounds of
Christ's love demonstrated on the cross.
I will not boast in my wealth or might
nor in my wisdom's fleeting light, but I
will boast in knowing Christ at the
cross who fully paid my ransom. Because
of this I rejoice in my Redeemer, life's
greatest treasure. He's the Wellspring
of my soul so I will trust in Him, and
no other. My soul is satisfied in Him
alone. Therefore I freshly commit to
glorifying You with my body, for that is
my ultimate worth that I fully surrender
to You. Amen.
Brooksyne's Note: After I pulled the 25 cent price tag off of Stephen's vest I immediately recognized it to be a price tag from one of my purchases yesterday from the Gift and Thrift Store where I volunteer cashier. I was tempted to let him walk through the gymnasium where we have the luncheon and let someone else pull it off and make a good joke, but I decided to save him the embarrassment (or maybe not so much for a man as a woman).
Daily
prayer: Father, as You already
know my worth is not in what I own, it's
not in the strength of my flesh and
bone, but it's in the costly wounds of
Christ's love demonstrated on the cross.
I will not boast in my wealth or might
nor in my wisdom's fleeting light, but I
will boast in knowing Christ at the
cross who fully paid my ransom. Because
of this I rejoice in my Redeemer, life's
greatest treasure. He's the Wellspring
of my soul so I will trust in Him, and
no other. My soul is satisfied in Him
alone. Therefore I freshly commit to
glorifying You with my body, for that is
my ultimate worth that I fully surrender
to You. Amen.Prayer
adapted from the song, "My Worth Is
Not In What I Own"
Brooksyne's Note: After I pulled the 25 cent price tag off of Stephen's vest I immediately recognized it to be a price tag from one of my purchases yesterday from the Gift and Thrift Store where I volunteer cashier. I was tempted to let him walk through the gymnasium where we have the luncheon and let someone else pull it off and make a good joke, but I decided to save him the embarrassment (or maybe not so much for a man as a woman).
Today's
Suggested
Music and Supplemental Resources
"He
Paid a Debt He Did Not Owe"
Video MVBC
Youth Choir at Gateway Baptist,
Boiling Springs, SC. A song
appropriate for every generation till
the Lord returns! We might be singing
this one in heaven, who knows! Caution
for the Frozen Chosen - These
young people are very
enthusiastic!!! They sing it
like they really believe it.
Brooksyne's
Note: This video is GREAT! When
Stephen played it for me after I came
home from choir last evening I was
reminded of the Mountain Top church in
Arkansas where all my relatives
attended. Every Sunday the choir was
made up of anyone who walked up to the
platform with their hymnbook in hand
after the song leader took his place
to lead. The congregation was much
smaller than in this video but our
enthusiasm was just as hearty!
"My
Worth Is Not In What I Own"
Video
Shane and Shane This song is written
by Keith and Kristyn Getty and Graham
Kendrick It, like so much of their
music, is consistently thoughtful but
let us especially muse on this stanza:
- Two wonders here that I confess
- My worth and my unworthiness
- My value fixed - my ransom paid
- At the cross
"When
I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
Video
Kathryn Scott
"For
All He's Done" Video West
Coast Choir
Research
for this message for the
scientifically-interested:
Follow-up
to accident on Monday on I-81: I-81 reopens after
deadly pileup in Schuylkill during
snow squall
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