Does what we are looking for justify the price to be paid?

[Leonardo Von]

    Does what we are looking for justify the price to be paid?

• “All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to relieve the soul. See, O Jehovah, and look on me, for I have become vile.” (Lamentations 1.11). 

Esau sold his birthright (that vouchsafed him the double of the inheritance – Deuteronomy 21.17) in exchange of a modicum of food just because he was very tired (Gn 25.29,30):

“(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.” (Hebrews 12.16).

Many people give their pearls and what is holy in their lives (their children, for example) to those who like “to eat the flesh of Creator’s people” (Micah 3.3,5; Ezekiel 34.10), that is to say, only desire to live at the expenses of them:

“Do not give that which is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you.” (Matthew 7.6).

No one is better to care for the children than their parents.

    Jesus, on the other hand, sold all that He had (His life and inheritance) in order to buy, not only His Church, but the field wherein she is:

“Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.” (Matthew 13.44).

See the price to be paid so that we can experiment the true love (for example, the love between husband and wife, or parents and children, or between intimate friends – John 15.13). Hence Isaiah to say:

“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.” (Isaiah 55.1,2). 

The true love doesn’t have price, let alone suffice money to procure it (Songs 8.6,7). Nonetheless, it need to be bought. Jesus already pay off the bill with His blood (1Corinthians 6.20; 7.23; 1Peter 1.19). So, we don’t need to pass away to live the true love. Nevertheless, for us to enjoy it, we need to have in us His flesh and His blood (John 6.51-57).

So, empty your innermost (see Philippians 2.7), that is, give all that you have inside of you to Jesus and consecrate everything and everyone you have to Jesus, and certainly you will have in total condition of receiving what eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, that is to say, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him (1Corinthians 2.9).

Do this and certainly you will enjoy a marvelous week in a thorough certain that you made the best business of your life.