"Bought With A Price"

"Into Thine hand I commit my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth." (Psalms 31:5) If you remember how the story ended, Judas threw the money back; but then again, he never really understood the value of certain things, especially the value of the cross! There is a certain power that comes through the redemption that God has poured out; one that has another kind of a searing, whereas, we are sealed with His Spirit; a special people, who are sealed until that great day, zealous of good works and living in holiness, by committing ourselves unto God while waiting for the completion of our redemption. This very special kind of person is one that has been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ, and can only be realized by accepting what the complete value of that purchase was; in other words, you understand from what you have been redeemed, which is from the bondage of the law and it's curse, the power of sin, and the grave; all troubles, iniquity, evil, enemies, death, and destruction; and something else, than always seems to get in our way: we have been saved from ourselves!!! Oh, yes indeed! Because of our redemption, we have justification, we have forgiveness, we have adoption, and we have purification; none of which we can provide for ourselves, and all of which we desperately were in need of to become a child of God; and as His children, we have become His special property, by which He protects us, and He cares for us, because we are the apple of His eye! The greatest price of all was given for our redemption, and we should never ever discard the value of what has been given that we might be saved! If Judas had only realized the real price that had been paid, thirty pieces of silver was nothing in comparison to that price; neither could thirty pieces of silver have purchased anything close to one ounce of what was required to know forgiveness... "And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD. And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD." (Zechariah 11:11-13)