Bought With A Price

First Corinthians 6:19-20: Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Sometimes as we struggle along through life and wade through the waters of difficult challenges, and complicated relationships, there can be times that we feel that others don’t value us as they should or as much as we would like for them to. In our relationship with God, we need never be concerned that we don’t have value. We were bought with a very high price.

I have a possession that is very special to me. It is my Chickering grand piano. It is well over 100 years old, and it is a very beautiful instrument. I have spent hours and hours pouring my heart out through the piano keys. Nearly every day I spend time on that old bench communing with God.

A local man who is an expert in restoring old pianos found it for me and did the restoration. I had to wait several years for the whole process to be completed. I don’t remember exactly what I paid for the instrument and restoration, but it has been worth every penny. I love that piano. It has value to me. It was bought with a price.

It is mind boggling to think that I mattered enough, that I had value enough to God that He would allow his Son to suffer a horrible death to redeem my soul. I must have much value, you must have much value. God must love us dearly and at a level beyond our comprehension. We should never act like we own ourselves. God paid a price for us.

Getting back to my piano, because it has much value to me, I have it tuned when it gets out of tune, I wipe the dust off, and clean the ivory keys.

I think God looks at His valued ones and finds the areas that need to be tuned up, the places that have dust that needs to be wiped off, and all of the keys that need to be polished. We are valuable to Him, We were bought with a price. He wants our lives to make beautiful music. He can make it happen.