God
Paid
A
Ransom
To
Save You From The Empty Life ...
Scripture
1
Peter 1
18 For you
know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you
inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or
silver, which lose their value. 19 It
was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
Observation
I
can remember what my life was like before someone introduced me to
Jesus Christ. God has a term for a life that is being lived out
without Christ – empty! And “empty” perfectly describes what my
life was like before I surrendered my life to Christ.
The
only way that you and I can experience life to its fullest, the only
way we can experience life the way God meant for it to be, is by
having a personal relationship with our Creator. He created us. He
wants to be our Heavenly Father. He wants to save us, He wants to
rescue us from the “empty life”.
Satan
wants us to believe that we can live our lives like God doesn't
exist! Satan is constantly at work trying to get believers to go back
to the “empty life” In 1 Peter 1:14 God warns us, “Don’t slip
back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires.”
No
amount of money we accumulate, no matter how much fame or attention
we gain, no matter how successful we might be in business, none of
those things can save me nor save you from the empty life; it is only
by the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
Jesus
said, “The
thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that
they may have and enjoy
life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]. John
10:10
Application
I
will walk in obedience with my Heavenly Father so that I can
experience the abudant life that He has given me in Christ. How
about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, I can remember what it was like to live my life without
having a relationship with You. I didn't
like it then and I sure don't want to slip back into my old way of
living. Help me to say, “no” to sin. Help me to walk in
obedience.
I
pray for some of my friends who think that they can continue to live
in sin and it not destroy them. Open up their eyes! Show them the
dangerous path that they are on. Help them to turn back to You so
they can live their lives to the full, so they can experience the
abundant life that was meant for them!
Daily
Bible Reading: Isaiah 36,37; Psalms 76; 1 Peter 1
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