R is for REDEEMER

 

In trying to keep up with the daily A-Z April Writing Challenge, today's letter is R.

I'm doing the Attributes of God for this challenge but when I think of Jesus, God's Son, I immediately think of "Redeemer", so today, R is for Redeemer. Since God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all one anyways (the trinity) this works. 

I have SO many Scriptures and songs that remind me of my Redeemer.  Jesus paid the price for our sins so we don't have to.  We can accept Him as the Son of God, believe that He died, rose again to live eternally, and is coming again one day to take back the earth and establish a New Kingdom. All we have to do is just confess our sins and metaphorically speaking, lay them at the foot of that old rugged Cross.  You don't have to do anything performative, you don't have to say any special prayers or even go to a priest, pastor, rabbi, or pope.  You can just ask Jesus to forgive you, cleanse you (again, a metaphor) and press forward to represent Him well.  This includes loving our neighbors as we want to be loved, and loving God with all our heart, soul, and minds. There is no checklist to get into heaven. 

To redeem something is to pay for it.....we owed a debt we couldn't pay and He paid a debt He didn't owe.

I praise Him for that!

Even Job......thousands of years before Jesus was born, knew that His Redeemer lives. 

This is probably my fave song about the Redeemer. Written and sung by Keith Green who  came out of the Jesus Revolution when I was a young teen.  I bought all his record albums.  Sadly, he and 2 of his young children died in a plane crash when I was a senior in college. It was tragic. The Christian music scene lost a very talented composer and singer.