"And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." (Hebrews 7:7 KJV)
"For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth by means of Christ's blood on the cross. This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault." (Colossians 1:19-22 NLT)
Before I go any further, I must confirm that anyone reading this understands the point of God being the character in the parable of the buried treasure and the great pearl. Besides the fact that it is God who saves us, we have no ability to save ourselves, it is God's grace that causes Him to reach down and wake us up from the dead! He is the one that finds us! Oh, He knows where we are, all the time; but He is the one that waits for us to be in just the right place, at just the right time, and He uses that moment to save us!
You might have a different understanding of how you were saved; as we all can try to believe it was our choice to look for Him; but when we really take an honest evaluation of what we were like and what we really were looking for, we will discover that it was God that choose us, not us that choose Him!
Anywho, if we can start to get real about the unstoppable love that God has for us, we can really start to understand why we owe Him so much. We can never outgive God; nor can we ever serve Him enough! Nothing we do can ever repay the price that God paid for us...
""That is why I use these parables, For they look, but they don't see. They hear, but they don't really listen or understand."" (Matthew 13:13 NLT)
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