YouTube Channel Video Devo
https://youtu.be/2bDSlOMAfKY?
“Do We REALLY Understand?”
Romans 5:8
NIV- “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”
NLT- “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”
Many years ago, when we bought a house during the covid pandemic, we were sitting in the law office signing closing papers. The guy who led the meeting and was leading us in signing our names to multiple pages, literally stopped what he was doing, said he wanted to take a moment to point something out.
He looked at us and said, “Do you realize and understand the amazing deal you are getting with this historic interest rate? You will probably NEVER get this deal again!” It was a 2.75% rate and we were shocked to get that low, but he made it a point to clearly re-iterate the historic low we were about to get in this house purchase deal. I’ve told this story multiple times to others through the years about how he stopped and made a very clear point to us about this amazing low rate we were getting.
He wanted to be sure and emphasize this crazy low rate so that we would be reminded of the amazing deal we were getting and be appreciative of that. I remember saying something back to him like, “Yeah, I know. This is an incredible rate we are getting!” However, it stuck with me that he made it a point to heavily emphasize that deal.
As I look back on that moment, I think about a lot of times in my life where people have emphasized certain things to me, making sure that I was very clear and understood how blessed I was going to be by a certain gift or situation. I appreciate how these people felt the need to get my attention by restating how important it was that I understood and appreciated what was being offered or what was happening.
I think so often in our lives, we take for granted the absolutely unbelievable and amazing gift of life that Jesus gave us by dying on the Cross for our sins. When I see people giving their lives to Christ, I often think to myself, “Do I still have that same appreciation and fiery spirit in my heart now?” We should ALWAYS be living each and every single day with a genuine appreciation to God for what He did by sending Jesus Christ to die the most horrific death ever. That death was to give us eternal life if we should decide to accept it.
I hope this devotional serves as a simple, yet powerful reminder to each of us how appreciative we should be and need to be each and every single waking moment of each day. We don’t deserve it, but He chose to do it because He loved us and still does. Just as that guy in the closing meeting said to us, God is often asking us, “Do you clearly understand and realize what amazing deal you are getting?”
The best deal ever offered to us is Jesus giving His life and offering us eternal life. BEST….DEAL….EVER! Do we REALLY understand and appreciate?
