No Price Sufficient To Cover The Cost

April 24

An amazing incongruity of Christianity is the fact that we need do nothing to please God sufficiently to gain our salvation—it is a free gift, paid in full by the shed blood of Jesus (Romans 6:23). We need not, in fact, we cannot, add in any measure to the requirement that has already been met in our behalf.

We cannot merit salvation, for all mankind is fallen and cannot lift himself up because he is under the weight of sin. Indeed, we cannot purchase our salvation because there is no price sufficient to cover the cost of Heaven’s Perfect Lamb that was slain in our behalf.

As the Apostle says in I Peter 1:18, 19, “You were not redeemed from sin with corruptible things like silver and gold…but with the precious blood of Christ, the Lamb without blemish or spot.” Our salvation required a perfect sacrifice and there is no other perfect sacrifice to be slain upon the altar than the One that has already been lifted up. It can never be added to or detracted from. For all eternity, it stands.

Although we are not required to pay for our salvation, Hebrews 11:6 tells us, “Without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to Him must believe He exists and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.” So we come to Him without resources. We come only with the desire to search His ways and follow His truth. What we cannot buy with good deeds or money, is received by faith.