Seeing People as Trees – The COST of the Correction

Photo by Simon Speed. 18 February, 2010. Photo is in the Public Domain.

Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly. ²⁶ And He sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.” (Mark 8:25-26 – NASB)

We must never forget that, while the benefits of the Gospel are free, they did not come to us cheap.

In a lot of instances our spiritual blindness has been deliberate. Jesus can’t just go around forgiving and healing and restoring simply because He wants to. That is not how the moral universe functions. Every sin and failure; every sin of commission and of omission must be paid for, or every act of mercy would be a violation of the righteous law of God. The law could not just simply be put aside; it had to be fulfilled, and every transgression punished before mercy could be made available.

So when we see in the Gospels that Jesus healed diseases, both physical and spiritual, we need to remember that He was even then carrying all our transgressions to the cross. The punishment due for our sins He was even then carrying. All the sin and failure he encountered He was putting to His own account till He could finally say, “It is finished!”

It Cost Him

© Sunday 25^th January 2015 – by Christopher Shennan

My Lord gave me a second touch;

I no longer saw men as trees –

The way I relate to them now,

Is to aim my dear Lord to please.

But I know this change still cost Him;

It wasn’t cheap by manner or means –

The blood that he shed was the price

That He paid to fulfil my dreams.

All that God gives His dear children

Is free, and not one can be earned;

There’s nothing at all to pay Him,

Yet still, friend, by some it is spurned.

When I receive some great mercy

From the hand of my God and King,

I remember what it cost Him,

To give me this glad song to sing.

It was free to me, for certain,

But what He paid was His all

To procure for me redemption,

And each miracle when I call.

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