MOST are looking for a bargain. When it happens, we go with it as though we made it happen. Short of a month ago we bought ink for our printer. After a few weeks, our printer quit! Jim had already replaced the color and so put the black cartridge in. It wouldn’t print. The clerk at Staples said it looked like we needed to replace the photo print cartridge in order for the black to work. Didn’t work!
WE ENDED up buying a printer, that was already sold out, except for the display. We bought the display and they gave us credit for the ink we purchased last month. With the sale price being low and a new box of cartridges, along with the credit for the old ink, we got a good deal. We felt we were getting something for almost, nothing.
HOWEVER the printer didn’t work; period. So we took it back and had it checked out. We were encouraged to buy a different one. This one was priced higher but they gave it to us
for the same price as the sale item. So along with the credit for cartridges and the price of the new set of cartridges the cost of our new printer was even less then the first transaction. We are not wheeler and dealers. Staples wasn’t required to credit us the cartridges, but they did! Staples wasn’t required to give us the same price for the purchased printer, but they did!
HAVE YOU ever received a phone call saying; “you have been selected to win a free, all expenses paid, vacation to the Bahama’s!” I used to listen to see exactly what it would cost us but I now just hang up. Those vacation via the phone calls are not for nothing! They make it sound like its, too good to be true, adventure. And usually you pay too much for it!
DO YOU KNOW that before the law, there was lawlessness in the land. Death had already come into the world which came thru sin. Death continued when God gave Moses the law. Under the old dispensation; the law brought order as the world began to understand right from wrong. But they still died! We live under the new dispensation of the cross. Christ came so that we may have life! He came to give us a closer look at His Father; God!
WE LIKE TO talk about God’s Grace. We like to talk about being saved by grace thru Jesus Christ, and how we can live without condemnation. We like to discuss how we are set free from the law of sin and death; because God could take us, where the law could not. We like to talk about God’s free gift of eternal salvation, how it is ours and we don’t have to do anything to earn it, nor to receive it.
“GOD SO loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believed in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life!” John 3:16 One of the most memorized verses in all of scripture. But do you understand what it is saying? God’s grace is love! He loved everyone in the world and, wants everyone in the world to believe in His son Jesus; whom He sent to save us! His message is so simple. Yet we want to discuss, dissect, chew and regurgitate it instead of letting it consume us and be filled with thanksgiving, and excitement, because we belong in His kingdom.
GOD DIDN’T have to that! But He did! GOD could have continued as He was; but He didn’t! Instead He paid the price thru His Son and His Son paid the price on the cross. It looks like we received something for nothing! Instead we received eternal life instead of eternal death in hell, however, we have to do something! So what are you going to do about it?
YOU HAVE to accept the gift! You have to give up your life living in bondage to the world and become His child who is free. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 Don’t keep saying you can’t earn it. Or you don’t have to do anything to receive it! Instead, accept the gift, and let it change you by being happy in the service of the King! Love one another! Jane Ann Crenshaw 8/11/16
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