Do you accept the charges?
Posted on May 31, 2005, under General.
This last week I heard someone genuinely ask if having someone else pray for them was free, or if it cost anything. My initial thought was of course it’s free to pray to God! But I realized, because of our separation from God, it’s not free. There is a payment needed. However..
The bill has been pre-paid, you can call collect.
For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you.
1 Peter 1:18-20 (NLT)