I had some loose change sitting on my desk,and the words of a song came to mind.'Thirty piecec of silver was the price they paid,Thirty pieces of silver just the price of a slave.And my heart I have given to this Christ betrayed,for I know just how much He loved by the price he paid.' I don't know who wrote those words,or if I have the words right,but they are lovely words with a profound meaning. From eternity Christ knew the price that He would have to pay for our salvation,He would have to leave heaven,He who was the Son of God,equal with God, he didn't grasp at that ,but emptied Himself(Figuratatively speaking)He would still be God,but as one writer puts it,'He would divest Himself of His rightful dignity, by decending to an inferior condition abasing Himself.' When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon he said,' One small step for man, one giant step for mankind'.When we think of the step that Christ took when He left heaven and came to planet earth, it's beyond words to describe .He didn't come as a visitor,He came, taking upon Himself the very nature of a servant, but it didn't stop there,for we read, He humbled Himself ,by becoming obedient to death,but not just to death but death on a cross.That's part of the price He paid for our salvation one words sums it up amazing,we will continue to look further at this, next time.
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