I love a good quote. It sticks with me for days, months, sometimes years. I ponder it, rolling it around in my brain while figuring out how it applies to my life. In college, I even started a “quote document” so I could literally copy and paste quotes that I came across so I could easily access them. I know. #nerd. Last night, the hubs and I were watching one of our favorite tv shows, and a line that the main characters said hit me like a punch to the gut. The exchange went like this: “You didn’t kill her. She died saving your life.” “In saving my life, she conferred a value on it that is a currency I do not know how to spend.” As a long-time follower of Christ, if I am being honest, one of the things I take for granted the most is the fact that Jesus died for me. He died to save my eternal life. Last night, I watched a story where the man stumbles under the weighted truth that someone died so he could live. By very nature of the action, this sacrifice shows the person dying places invaluable worth on the person being saved. In essence, then, it’s a two-sided truth. First, someone died so that you can live. Second, your life has enough value to warrant someone’s death. When we re-frame this exchange in light of salvation for eternity, we see just how much grace exists in salvation. First, someone died so that I can live. Actually no… not just “someone”, JESUS. Jesus died so I can live. Jesus, the Creator & Sustainer of the universe DIED so I can live. Second, your life has enough value to warrant someone’s death. Actually NO, no it doesn’t! My life doesn’t have enough value to warrant Jesus Christ’s death. Jesus is God. I am not. Jesus is perfect. I am not. I could keep going but I feel like those first two comparisons are more than enough to make the point. But to top it all off, here’s what’s so staggering, Jesus loved me enough to say my life is worth dying for. Um, what? Romans 5:6-11 explains it better than I can. When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. I cannot read that account of God’s lavish love and not be overwhelmed. I understand the character’s question. When faced with such love and sacrifice, how do I spend this currency of a life when it cost someone else a value I can’t comprehend? It’s a question we should ask. But I’m finding the answer is simple. We live. Jesus didn’t die on the Cross to provide me with eternal salvation for me to sit on the sidelines as life passes by. He places a value on my life, some might say a calling, and He simply says “walk worthy of it.” {Eph 4:1} That’s how I can show him my gratitude. How I can show my sincerity. Walk worthy. It’s the only way to live with the value conferred to my life.
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