July 5 – What it Cost

“He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”  Romans 8:32 (NASB)

The Apostle Paul, writing in his letter to the believers and followers of Jesus who lived in Rome is telling them something very significant.  Paul's lesson point is this, How can we think that God would do less for His children than He did for His enemies when He let the enemies take Jesus all the way to the cross.   He freely gives us all that we need when he bestows on us forgiveness and salvation out of grace because it cost so much to get us there.  When Jesus died on the cross it was to take our place and to pay the debt we owed, and if we have accepted what He did then God has adopted us as His children.  Think what it cost God to bridge the gap separating Him from us, the gap that was created by sin.  God has promised so much more to us when we, by faith believing, become His children.  After giving us His own Son to accomplish this we can trust the promise that He will give us everything we need.  Not everything we may lustfully want but we will not lack in anything that God has promised to us.  

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