Some things we don’t like to do.
They aren’t bad things, just things that don’t appeal to us.
Like, walking the dog. We can pay someone to do that for us. We write a check, and someone shows up at the door with a leash. We can enjoy fetch and licks and other fun stuff, and someone else spends time doing the not-so-fun stuff.
Or a car wash. We drive up, swipe our card, and we sit in a climate-controlled lounge while munching cookies as our car travels through the car wash. Someone even climbs inside and vacuums the interior while we wait. No sweat, clean car, and bam, we’re on the road.
If we have enough money, we can have someone clean our toilets, walk the grocery aisles, and cut our grass. We don’t have to do any of it.
If you’re rolling your eyes, ask yourself if you built your own house, or your car, or your computer? Or did you pay someone to do it for you?
Or your food? Did you grow it yourself? You can, you know. Free food, well, except for the labor involved.
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could go to the doctor for us, lay on the surgeon’s table, even get stitches so we don’t have to?
Oh, right! Someone already has. Let’s read in 1 Peter 2:24:
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
Thank you, Jesus.
You’re welcome, he says.
Jesus wants to step in and take our place. It’s called salvation, and he offers it to us for free.
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