Beggars of Nothingness
Redemption cost nothing to humans and everything to God. This is the message of the cross, pure and simple. We human beings were helpless and unable to effect our salvation in any way at all. God, who had the means, took up our cause in the the death of Jesus Christ and redeemed us with the price of divinity’s death that no human could offer.
If as Christians we know nothing else, it should be this: God has everything and we have nothing. There is nothing that we have done to deserve our love by God. And God does not waver in love the way so many humans can.
And this is as it should be. Because, if the love of God were something that we could effect in some way, then it would be possible to lose it. If there was something I had to do to get the love of God, then I might stop doing it and lose the love of God. But since God loves me (and you) without price, there can never be any fear that is founded on anything.
We are beggars with empty hands before a Lord who every morning drops a billion dollars into our bowls.
