Redemption

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.  

Colossians 1:13-14 

We make much of redemption, and we should. The Scriptures explain our origins and detail how we came to need redemption. They go on to explain to us what God has done to accomplish redemption, and present Christ as our Mediator. The more clearly we understand all these things that relate to the subject, the more we realize the importance of redemption above other pursuits. Whatever else we gain in life, redemption matters more. If we gain the whole world and yet lose our own soul, what shall it profit us? Therefore redemption is a subject which we should examine thoroughly and understand fully. Redemption is bound together with the Person and work of Christ. Thus if we are to make much of redemption, we must make much of Christ. As our text puts it, speaking of Him, ‘in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.’ We cannot make too much of Christ. He is the inexhaustible well of salvation from Whom we can continually draw the water of life. By Him we have redemption.  

Our Great God and our Savior, 
we rejoice at Your redemptive work. 
We praise You that You have brought us up out of 
the fearful pit and the miry clay.  

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning