Day 51 By Greg Asimakoupoulos

There's so such thing as a FREE lunch.  That old axiom means that there has to be somebody footing the bill somewhere. 

Those who make their way to a soup kitchen or a rescue mission don't have to pay at the door.  They are welcome.  But someone has contributed to this agency so it could provide for others

the some could be said for heaven's handout.  Looking down on HIS fallen creation, GOD saw ua in out need.  We could not repair the rift that separated us from our Creator. 

Heaven was designed to be our ultimate home, but without some kind of intervention we would be forever homeless.




A Holy GOD who is wholly compassionate designed a rescue mission that would bridge the breach.  He would offer us complete forgiveness, residency in heaven, and full inheritance as sons and daughters. 

The only way HE could accomplish this was to punish HIS perfect SON by placing on HIM all out guilt, shame, and selfish ambition.  Grace would be FREE, but it would come with an unbelievably costly price tag.

No wonder we call it "Amazing Grace".  In light of all JESUS did to purchase our salvation, no wonder we claim HIM as the KING of our lives.

2 Corinthians 8:9 King James Version (KJV)

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Consider the contrasts that distinguish us from our Great GOD.  Think about what the Father paid that we might FREELY claim HIS love.