What was your last big purchase?
Maybe it was maybe it was that trip? Or the plane ticket? The clothes that you wanted? The big fancy dinner? A house?
Think about what you had to sacrifice or still are sacrificing to be able to spend that money. Maybe you passed up on a lot of fun things to save money. Maybe you have to put in more time at work. Whatever it is, its a sacrifice. In the end, we all hope it was worth it.
Because its when that purchase, whatever it is, doesn’t quite work out or meet your expectations that you realize the things you had to do or give up to get it!
It’s called value. And the more valuable something is to us, the more we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
Sometimes, I like to think about Jesus life before He started his ministry at the age of 30. Back in those days that’s a middle-aged man. We have to remind ourselves that Jesus always knew his divine nature and therefore knew what came before him, and what was coming in the future. He knew exactly what he was going to do.
As we get closer to Easter week and the Passion of Our Lord, we can reflect on just how crazy those days were in Jerusalem. After all, Jesus spent three years healing hundreds, maybe even thousands of people, raising people from the dead, exercising horrible demons, doing miracles beyond imagination witnessed by thousands. He preached to the worst of the worst sinners. He preached to small groups and to crowds that were in the thousands.
And just days after he entered Jerusalem as a great prophet to cheers and rejoicing and the laying of palms in his path, he would face the worst possible experience anyone could imagine.
And yet, He did it. Of His own free will.
You see, He loves us so much that He was willing to give the greatest sacrifice, His life.
Sacrifice for what?? It is only by His suffering and dying on the cross that He purchased for each of us the path to heaven and eternal life. He was born and lived His whole life, 33 years, for that purpose.
That purchase was for the debt of our sins. The price…. His death on the cross.
How could any of us ever feel worthy enough for that generosity?? The thing is, we can’t. But it does make me realize just how much he loves me and you. And all he wants in return is, for us to love each other, to repent our sins and to love Him and be faithful. All good things.
What is the value of a soul. Of your soul. For Jesus it was…….
The biggest purchase of all.
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