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I never thought about the spiritual aspects of giving my kids a bath or standing in a line at a grocery store. However, God has recently showed me some insightful biblical truths in some of the most mundane tasks in life. Whether I am driving, showering or sleeping each of these activities has a biblical truth tucked inside of it. In the forest of life, God’s biblical truth is inside each one of these trees. My hope is that others view the ordinary aspects of life through a spiritual lens and see what God teaches you.







Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Unequal Sign



As a kid, the pawn shop became a place I was far too familiar with.  My family of five lived in a two bedroom low income apartments all of our lives. Dad’s work was contract; therefore, he encountered several periods of unemployment as one job would end and as he looked for another one. Mom, for the most part, stayed home with three kids.  Money was tight for a variety of reasons and a pawn shop became a place I quickly learned to despise.
I can remember coming home from school on different occasions to discover that our television, stereo, boom box, and dad’s guns were put in the pawn shop and sometimes all simultaneously.  No matter how it was explained to me, the pawn shop seemed to get the better deal. The trade that was made inside that shop seemed too unfair, too one-sided, and too unequal.   We only received a fraction of what are stuff was worth to get through the rough patch.
As I reflect on this Easter weekend, this experience from my childhood has reminded me of the MOST unequal transaction that has ever occurred… Jesus’ death for my sin.  My pride…. His Death. …..My greed…. His Death….My selfishness….His Death.   As angry as I was about the exchange that took place inside that pawn shop several years ago, Jesus made an exchange that was far greater.
We’ve all experienced getting the short end of a stick in one time or another in our life, but Jesus did willingly! He willingly traded his life and took “the raw end of the deal” for my wrong doings.  What a trade!  What an exchange! What a transaction!  I am so thankful for what He did! Through his death, I got a sweet deal and truly avoided what I should have gotten. ----Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men[a] because all sinned—(Romans 5:12)  
Thank you Jesus for this unequal transaction you performed for me!

2 comments:

  1. Reminds me of my favorite scripture:
    Romans 5:8
    8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (ESV)

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    1. One of my favorites too Mr. Lucas. Thanks for reading!

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