A wallet full of bills. A credit card or two. What do we do with all that money?
It’s obvious. There’s a holiday on the way.
Retailers work overtime to convince us we should buy, buy, buy! Mother’s Day! How about a new refrigerator? Father’s Day demands a boat in the drive! Valentine’s Day is for diamonds and jewels, and there are a hundred others, including Christmas and birthdays.
What do we do with all the stuff, use it every day? Store it away? Bring it out on a rainy afternoon?
We have to ask ourselves, what’s the good stuff? What do we need? What makes the perfect purchase?
Sometimes it’s things we can use up, experience, or have a practical use for: a voucher for a cruise, a dinner on the town, or a new grill to replace the one that no longer works.
In Jeremiah we learn it’s our right and duty to buy our relative’s field if he is in need.
Isaiah tells us to come to the waters, and to buy and eat.
In Ruth, Boaz says that to buy Naomi’s land brings another, greater prize.
Where do our rights and duties fall, and what better gift can be ours when we care for those who are close to us?
God created humanity, and we turned on him. There was no love lost on Man’s side, and the Father could only weep in sorrow. Yet, he knew his duty. It was to his creation. He paid a very high price for our field, so that we could have a better life.
It cost him Jesus, and it cost him the heartbreak of watching his Son hang on a cross, covered with the shame of all humanity’s sins.
Refrigerators, boats, and diamonds? They catch our eye, and they look wonderful to us. The perfect purchase is more. It’s Christ, coming to us to die on a cross, to redeem our sins.
Hebrews 13:8 tells us:
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
That’s the gift we need to offer others. The message of Christ. The love that comes through salvation.
When we offer Jesus, we’ve given exactly what the world needs.
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