A High Price To Pay

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.
1 Corinthians 6: 19-20 NKJV

The first time I watched the Mel Gibson film "The Passion Of The Christ" I came away with a gut wrenching feeling.  I've read in scripture of the suffering that Jesus endured on his way to his crucifiction and at Cavalry hill.  However, to actually see a physical portrayal of a portion of what he endured was pretty emotional for me.  Of course, aside from the scripture, there were no eyewiness action news footage of this event.  We can understand from our own history the brutality of the Roman crucifiction.  Basically, it was a slow, agonizing death for anyone unfortunate enough to  be condemned to such treatment.  The Romans weren't known as the most humane people when it came to capital punishment.  It is against this backdrop that we can get a glimpse of the torture our Lord endured.  Of course, we also know that Jesus knew his destiny well beforehand.  Yet,  despite knowing the terrible treatment that awaited him, he obeyed his fathers will and willingly gave his own life as a sin offering for all mankind.  Of course, we all know that this "sin offering" offered up a innocent, perfect man.  Jesus was born into this world without sin, and he departed that same way.   Of course, this was the sacrafice God required for the forgiveness of our own sin.  Personaly, I don't feel that I can attach a price (in human terms) to the unselfish act that Jesus did for me.   Yet, as 1 Corinthians 6 tells us, each of us was bought at a price.  That price being the death and shed blood of Jesus.
Romans 6 tells us that the wages of sin is death,  that is the punishment each of us deserved for our sins, if not for Jesus.

For the wages of sin is death,  but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6: 23 NKJV

As 1 Corinthians 6 tell us, despite being condemned to death, Jesus paid that price for us and now resides IN US.  I would take that tradeoff any day of the week, but that's just me.  This vessel (me) that Christ purchased with his own blood is now a part of him.  He himself posseses the ownership papers.  Where we were once condemned by sin, Jesus paid that price that freed us.  A high price to pay for sure, but  one provided for by the love and mercy of God.

~Scott~