First Sunday After Resurrection

On this first Lord’s Day Sunday after Resurrection Sunday, still with the Resurrection events fresh in our minds and more so, with convincing proofs which Jesus continues to bring to believers, we set our minds on the word, buy. 

The word buy, carries a variety of meanings as it is used in different ways. Our everyday daily use of the word buy, is when there is an exchange, in order to receive something. When we buy goods and services, we exchange our money for the items we require. That’s simple, for we do this regularly at our supermarkets, stores and such like.

The other day, I was looking at a documentary of how people who live in some of the remotest countries manage. When it was, what I would refer to as market day, the people came down from the snow covered mountains to buy what they needed. I saw an octogenarian, come down with her sled, drawn by dogs, to buy what seemed to me like thick, furry, fluffy skins, cured and made into thick, long shawl-like blankets. She paid with the fish that she had caught and cured. It was greatly fascinating to me as an outsider but, O so ordinary to them.  What am I saying? I am saying that when we buy, we exchange our assets or goods, be it cash or kind. 

The word buy, is used with persons. We speak of buying a person, in relation to bribery. It is customary and most common for us to use the word buy, when we are speaking of accepting and believing. How often have you and I heard or seen something and our first unprovoked response, is this. I don’t buy that nonsense! Additionally we speak of persons buying into tomfoolery. For example, we are sometimes aghast and say to a friend, did you buy into that scam? There are many more examples of the use of the word buy, but I now offer you this one.

Here is the greatest, the highest, the most honoured and revered use of the word, buy, there ever was, or ever will be. Jesus bought us! We, sinners, the entire population of sinners in this sinful world of pure sin and darkness, Jesus bought us all. In order to ransom and redeem us all, God Incarnate, bought us and paid the price with His divinely, precious Blood. Listen to these words of fact from Scripture. 

1 Corinthians 6: 19 – 20. 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 with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. You belong to Jesus because He bought you from sin, death, hell and the grave, to be His and live with Him and in Him. You are a bought person, free from your past ownership.

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.  1 Peter 1: 17 – 19.

These Bible verses and several more in the Scriptures, inform, confirm and remind many of us that: -

• Jesus, God in human flesh, did buy us from sin, our previous owner.

• Jesus, God Incarnate, did buy us, but not with corruptible things like silver and gold, but with His unblemished, spotless, uncorrupted, precious Blood.

For the remainder of the week, our meditations will be on the word, buy. We will continue to seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance as we dive into waters, perhaps very unfamiliar to some of us. However, faith keeps us fully and completely engaged, as we do not want to forfeit any of our Lord’s good for us.

Holy Spirit we ask please to know much more, feed on much more, receive much more, and live much more closely to You, so that we may bear much more fruit to You.  Amen!