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Eternal life

The gospel. Never failing to amaze and confound. 

I think about this at Vacation Bible School this summer. In a room full of kids hearing testimonies from those sent to the ends of the earth. Sent to share the Good News in places where He is not known. 

Then we bring it home to where they are. Today. Sitting on a carpet in an air-conditioned church building. 

Jesus came that they too might have eternal life. And we tell the way of salvation.

Eternal life. Image by Erika Geraud on Unsplash.
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Someone else’s surrender

Someone else’s surrender will not do. David knows this. 

Thank you, Araunah, but “I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” (2 Samuel 24:18-25)

He buys the threshing floor, the oxen. For a price. Then builds an altar and makes the offerings to God.

Each of us must consider the cost of following Christ. And someone else’s surrender will not do.

Surrender. Image by Jon Tyson on Unsplash.