How Much Did It Cost?

       Is the cheapest thing around the best thing to purchase?  Well, it depends on what you want out of it.  Some things that I have purchased at a cheap price don't work and end up In the trash.  I saw a saxophone on the internet that was cheap.  In fact the price was less than $200 while the Selmer Mark VI was selling for over $6,000.  I bought the saxophone and it now sits in the basement.  It wasn't to bad on tuning but one of the keys was too close to another key causing them to stick together every time you played an E flat.  Well, it was cheap.  Some people say, "You get what you pay for."  I saw a Lexus on the road the other day and one tail light was a different color due to fading of the glass, or plastic.  Sometimes paying a lot doesn't guarantee that the product will be great.  The payment for our sin, however was something beyond what we can ever think.   Second Corinthians 5:21 says, " For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." 
       Erwin Lutzer made a comment which said,  "[Jesus] had to compress an eternity of hell into three hours. As best we can, we must grasp that this was infinite suffering for the infinite Son of God. There was no way to transfer sin without transferring its penalty. To put it plainly, He was receiving what was due us. The wrath of the Father burned toward the Son once the reckoning was made. Indescribable sin was in contact with infinite holiness and infinite justice."  We often read the account of the crucifixion and are through the verses in less than 5 minutes.  We often, however, fail to realize what we have just read and what took place during that time on the cross.  This was no cheap  payment that was made for us.  It was the most "expensive" of all payments ever made and mankind cannot come even close to matching the offer.  This was the price that was going to have to be made if we were to receive the "righteousness of God."   So, we can't even come close to paying for our own sin let alone the sin for the whole world.  Perhaps this is why men and women, boys and girls, have such a hard time "believing on the Son."  That, then is the wonder of grace.  You have the opportunity to get the best by the grace of God.  We should be in the business of praising God daily for this wonderful salvation.  Praise God today for the work of His Son on the cross at Calvary for sin.