who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
Psalms 103:4 NIV
One of the benefits of being a child of God is that he redeems our lives from the pit. I am involved with the Scout Center where I live. This past Saturday evening we had our annual fund raising Spaghetti dinner. Scouts had sold tickets and people brought them in, redeemed them, and enjoyed a salad, garlic bread and spaghetti. In a sense, redemption is when something is used for its' intended purpose. We were created to know God and serve him. Christ redeems us to abide in him and bear good fruit.
Another side of redemption is the Redeemer. Paul teaches us that Christ is our redemption (I Corinthians 1:30). Knowing Christ, our Redeemer is no small thing. That is our life. Jesus does not redeems us to give us another chance to do things on our own. He redeems us to live a new life, as a new creation, created for good works, loving and serving by faith. My alma mater's (Columbia Bible College, now Columbia International University) motto is, "To know Him and make Him known". The more I walk with the Lord, the more I appreciate that statement.
Finally, the pit. From a purely devotional and personal position, are you in a "pit"? Maybe a pit you dug yourself or a trap of the enemy. Whatever the pit you have fallen into, Christ died to redeem you from it. Be redeemed! Praise God for all his benefits, and today we thank him because he redeems our lives from the pit. Thank you, Lord!
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