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FAITH MATTERS 7

"WE ARE WORTH EVERY DROP OF

BLOOD THAT WAS SPILT"

n our quest to really live out God’s best for us, gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him
I found a treasure of a teaching from Jeremy freely and graciously give us all [other] things?”
IPearsons that could not have come at a more
appropriate time! It has inspired us to be extra This scripture is saying that God held nothing
vigilant to keep our mind renewed to what God back when He gave us Jesus, His measure of
has made available to us through the cross goodness towards us was extreme. So, now
of Jesus. Having said that, I want to remind that we are His, how can we not expect Him
you today that whatever good things God has to keep being good to us, just as freely and
purposed and wants us to enjoy in this life, He graciously, in all things we need now?
has already provided and secured for us on
the cross. Every covenant promise is a gift to Your value and worth to God today, is just as
us because of what Jesus accomplished over it was the day He bought and paid for you.
2000 years ago. That means we can’t acquire And what a price He paid! He gave up the life
a promise by our own efforts or good works. of His only begotten Son, the most precious
No, every good and perfect promise is a gift possession He had. And both Father and
of grace to us, and our appropriate response Son, paid most willingly and graciously, even
is to accept it with thankful hearts that are full though it cost them everything. They did it
of faith! because they believed you and I, were worth it.

According to 1 Corinthians 6:20, “You But their goodness towards us didn’t stop
were bought with a price [purchased with a there, nor has its intensity slacked off. No, the
preciousness and paid for, made His own].” expectation we are to have concerning God’s
This is a ‘treasure truth’ I want us to renew our goodness towards us, is to be of the same
minds to this week! measure it was given at the cross. And we
are to expect it in all things concerning us,
When God gave His all, through Jesus, so that especially now that we are His! The truth is,
we could be bought and paid for, He believed His goodness towards us today comes out of
wholeheartedly, that we were worth the cost! the goodness He has already done for us on
God’s greatest display of goodness ever the cross!
shown to mankind was what Jesus did on the
cross for us. The fact that He was willing to go The bottom line is that we belong to God, and
to that extreme to snatch us out of the devil’s His intentions towards us have and always
clutches and make us His very own, tells us we will be extremely good! That’s because He
have true value to Him. A value that said we believes we are worth it, regardless of what we
are worth every drop of blood that was spilt. or anyone else believes. And that is something
we must not only be assured of, but must be
Now, look at what Romans 8:31-32 says, expectant for. Let this truth resonate with
“What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is you this week, I know I’m certainly going to
for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be embrace it and make it my own each day.
our foe, if God is on our side?] He who did
not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but