How can we buy without money and price?
Only now I could take in the meaning of this verse. After all, how can someone to buy something without money and price (cost)?
For you to figure out this, try to image somebody holding a big ball in his arms and that the salvation offered by Christ is a great gift (as, indeed, it is).
Jesus' salvation is for free. The person only need to receive it. Nevertheless, as the person is holding the ball, which is so big as the gift, this one will be obliged to drop the ball to catch the Jesus' gift.
So, although the salvation is for free, the person had to forgo the ball. In a way, this person had to pay something.
This ball represents our life. We need to pass up accepting the wishes, plans, thoughts and feelings of our flesh to receive Jesus' salvation.
And when it is said that there is no price (cost), this means that there isn't limit to be reach in order to be saved. If it existed, this would be unrighteous inasmuch as each person has a different capacity. For many people, this limit could be achieved easily, what would allow them to live the remain of their lives by themselves. On the other hand, for many people, this limit would be impossible of being accomplished because they are weaker.
What is more, Jesus' salvation is a lifestyle to be lived: either we long for being free from the sin and be useful to Jesus, or we are misguiding ourselves and, thus, we condemn ourselves to be a wander curse. To drop Jesus' salvation to live by ourselves when the situation get worse make us into someone useless. After all, as the sound ones doesn't need doctors, who is filled of the Holy Spirt doesn't need us to see the salvation of Christ (it is where the sin abounds that the grace superabounds - Rom 5:20). The grace only can be seen where it there is sin to be covered by mercy.
Have a good day going over this in Christ.
- “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.” (Isaiah 55:1)
Only now I could take in the meaning of this verse. After all, how can someone to buy something without money and price (cost)?
For you to figure out this, try to image somebody holding a big ball in his arms and that the salvation offered by Christ is a great gift (as, indeed, it is).
Jesus' salvation is for free. The person only need to receive it. Nevertheless, as the person is holding the ball, which is so big as the gift, this one will be obliged to drop the ball to catch the Jesus' gift.
So, although the salvation is for free, the person had to forgo the ball. In a way, this person had to pay something.
This ball represents our life. We need to pass up accepting the wishes, plans, thoughts and feelings of our flesh to receive Jesus' salvation.
And when it is said that there is no price (cost), this means that there isn't limit to be reach in order to be saved. If it existed, this would be unrighteous inasmuch as each person has a different capacity. For many people, this limit could be achieved easily, what would allow them to live the remain of their lives by themselves. On the other hand, for many people, this limit would be impossible of being accomplished because they are weaker.
What is more, Jesus' salvation is a lifestyle to be lived: either we long for being free from the sin and be useful to Jesus, or we are misguiding ourselves and, thus, we condemn ourselves to be a wander curse. To drop Jesus' salvation to live by ourselves when the situation get worse make us into someone useless. After all, as the sound ones doesn't need doctors, who is filled of the Holy Spirt doesn't need us to see the salvation of Christ (it is where the sin abounds that the grace superabounds - Rom 5:20). The grace only can be seen where it there is sin to be covered by mercy.
Have a good day going over this in Christ.