“A faithful man (or woman) shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”
We often hear about something being “the best that money can buy.” In America we really believe in things that money can buy. Malls and Wal-Mart’s stay busy all of the time selling things. This is not bad within itself; after all, commerce has made us the great nation that we are. But there are some things that are priceless and they all come from God. You can’t go to a store and buy the real blessings of God. If God put a price tag on them, even Donald Trump or Warren Buffet could not afford them. The fact is that there is no amount of money that can buy the real blessings of God. Let’s look at a few, none of which will probably surprise you, but we need to be reminded of them. Salvation is one of those great blessings that we cannot buy. In fact, we are told in 1 Corinthians 6:20 that God purchased it for us: “For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which are God’s.” We were bought with the price of the precious blood of God’s Son. We could not buy ourselves out of sin; God had to act in His great love to bring us out of sin. We are saved by the free grace of God’s Son. Salvation is free, but it is not cheap. Jesus paid a great price on the cross to save us from sin. This should cause us to “glorify God in (our) body and (our) spirit." If you are saved, stop reading and glorify God. If you aren’t saved, run to Jesus right now, confess your sins and invite Jesus into your heart and life. Heaven is one of those great blessings that we cannot buy. Imagine that we die and get to the gate of heaven, and we look for the price of admission. The price should be great because of the price that Jesus had to pay to get us there. I can’t believe the price that people pay today to get into baseball and football games. It takes several hundred dollars to get a seat at a major sports event. If we had to pay to get into heaven, no one would be able to afford the ticket. The price of admission into heaven could be posted on the gate: “Price of admission is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.” It was by faith in Christ that we were able to gain admission into the gates of heaven. That brings me to another of God’s blessings that money cannot buy – faith. We are saved by faith, but that is not where it stops, for we are sustained by faith. It is faith in Jesus that takes us over the hard places of life. When we are gravely ill, or facing some other hardship, we cannot buy ourselves out of it, but our faith can certainly get us through it. We can pay for medical treatments, but we cannot pay for the blessing of the presence of Christ in our lives. His presence is made real and vital by our faith in Him. If you want to really understand the glory of God, live by faith in Him, take steps of faith that will show you what only God can do, and you will be truly blessed. Having faith in God is much better than having the money in the bank to buy whatever we want. Another of the great blessings of God that we cannot buy is Christian fellowship. I remember hearing a country song about thirty or forty years ago that claimed: “Me and Jesus got our own thing going.” We were saved as individuals, for each of us has to come to Jesus by faith, but once we are saved we become a part of the great fellowship of God’s people. I like to think that when I read the Bible I am fellowshipping with the saints of old as well as the saints who are alive now. Some of my great blessings in life have come from the Christians that I have known over the years. There is nothing sweeter than real Christian fellowship, and we cannot buy ourselves into it. Learn to enjoy the fellowship of God’s people. I told you that none of these would be new to you, and probably did not surprise you, but I want to ask you to pause now and rejoice in these things that money cannot buy. Bro. Joe
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