Our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan for today begins with Psalm 49. Look at verses 8-9:
8 For the ransom of a life is too costly, and [the price one can pay] can never suffice— 9 So that he should live on forever and never see the pit (the grave) and corruption.
This is saying that there is nothing - NOT ONE THING - that any of us could ever do to pay for our own salvation! The great GOOD NEWS that we are to be sharing with and representing to the world is this from John 3:15-18:
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. 18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.]
THAT give the whole story! JESUS already paid the price for OUR sin when He took it upon Himself! When He rose from the dead, He showed us OUR future, too! I am SO grateful to have JESUS as my Lord and Saviour! Psalm 49:15 shows us what God was going to do!
15 But God will redeem me from the power of Sheol (the place of the dead); for He will receive me. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
We NOW live in the fulfillment of this promise! Be thankful daily for your salvation and you will increase your capacity to walk in more and more of the fullness of God and of our new and better Covenant with Him! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Remembrance":
Shalom in Him!
