- Our Turkey Fry is on Sunday. Pray for the families and safety for the fryers!
- New Frontiers Retreat for One Way. Pray for God to move and for safe travel.
"The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer." Isaiah 47:4
Do you use coupons? Many of us do, and that's especially important when you're buying food and gifts during the holidays. Have you ever thought about what happens when you "redeem" a coupon? Like, if you have a buy one get one free meal at a restaurant and you redeem the coupon, what happens? Well, you don't pay for it. But somebody pays for it. The restaurant pays for it. Sometimes, in grocery stores, a manufacturer pays for it instead of the local store. Sometimes the chain pays for it. But someone does. It's not free. To redeem a coupon means you're getting something for free that someone else has paid for. Today, I was reading about how God told Israel after the Exodus from Egypt to 'redeem' the first born son of each family. They were to offer sacrifices of their first born animals to redeem their sons and remind them of God's deliverance with stories of the first Passover and Exodus, how God brought them out of Egypt. But someone paid for those boys. The animals were sacrificed. Death is the price of sin and to be 'bought back' for God, someone had to pay. Enter Jesus, the Redeemer. He gave to us free what was very costly to Him. The price of our redemption was blood. That blood made us right with God. We take for granted getting on our knees before a Holy God. We take for granted a relationship with our Heavenly Father, kind of like a BOGO meal. Somebody had to pay. That relationship was not free. We had to be redeemed. When we let that sink in, then it all starts to makes sense. Don't you want everyone on the face of the planet to know they are 'redeemed'?
In Christ,
Carter
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