Bought Back

“My bike is gone,” exclaimed a tearful Timmy. “I can’t find it anywhere. Somebody’s taken it!” A search by father and son failed to locate the bike anywhere in the neighborhood. Later, visits to several pawnshops did locate the missing bike, but since the family had failed to put any undeniable identifying marks on it, they couldn’t claim it or involve the police. The father had to buy it from the shop. The bike had to be redeemed, purchased a second time.

It’s a whole lot like our relationship to God. He has provided us with a vast array of benefits, provisions and things to enjoy, far beyond the value of a bike. Through the inroads of sin we lost any claim to these benefits or the relationship to God that we were designed to have. But they are offered to us anyway. Should we then just take everything we have for granted and even complain when we don’t get more or better? Hardly a thought of thanksgiving crosses the mind of many people, even as we approach Good Friday that reminds of what it cost the Lord to ‘buy us back’, to pay the price for our redemtion. His promise still is that “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:13

May we be thankful always and keep on the sunny side.
Henry Wiebe