Coka-Cola bottles. In my travels on mission trips, one of the things that I always look for to bring home with is a glass bottle (or in the case of Cuba an aluminum can) of locally bottled Cola.
Something you notice when you start looking at the glass bottles (even plastic bottles nowadays) is the detail that they provide. You get the product name and manufacturer of course. They also include the nutritional value, ingredients, often the bottling location. But there is usually one more little tidbit of information. How much that bottle is worth in redemption value to the manufacturer.
My foreign made Cola bottles are printed in Creole, Thai, and Spanish thus it 's hard to know what their redemptive value is, however, the water bottles on my desk each are worth .5 cents each. Not very much but if you were able to collect enough of them you might be able to buy an ice cold coke.
In Galatians 3:13-14 Paul pens these beautifully powerful words:
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed. The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith."
His Son.
It's that simple.
Your life, my life, the eternal lives of all those who have believed as Abraham from the beginning of time till the Lord comes back to claim His bride share the same redemptive value.
The life of His one and only Son.
This was a price that Jesus readily paid to redeem you to the creator that you might share in the eternal blessings of dwelling in the presence of The Most High.
Knowing this should significantly impact the way in which we live our lives. The question you have to answer is has it?
See you Sunday!
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