The Price of Freedom

I really do not know what you’re going through right now – just believe that God will neither leave nor forsake you; He’ll see you through … and if you are still asking the question ‘WHY ME?’, here is my answer, ‘WHY NOT YOU.’ 

The book of Ecclesiastes 9:11 states that; “The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.”

There is ‘a time’ in/with God – His time is always the best as all things are beautified and perfected in their ‘various times’.  You are not an exception.  

Let this short story narrated by one of my lecturers take your mind off your limits but I want you to make a decision to either sit down and lament your problems or get on your limbs and exalt God above your problems.

During the slavery days; certain slaves were offered for sale on an auction slab.  As the auctioneer announced the slaves, bidders tendered their prices and trading continued until a tiny, slim and haggard looking young black girl was offered on the slab.  No one bid for her; ‘She’s no value for money.’  They said.

A rich young man, gorgeously dressed raised his hands and declared, “I’ll buy her for 4,000 dollars.”

The auctioneer kept on pressing, nobody could offer more. Even the heftiest guy bought on that day was acquired for 175 dollars.  “What a mere waste of good money on a valueless thing!’ The bidders complained.

The gavel came down; the slave girl was to be passed on to the rich man.  The young maid spat on the rich man, questioned, ‘Who asked you to buy me … fool?’  The man wiped the spittle off his face and went into the auctioneers’ inner office to settle his bill. 

They passed on the girl to him as a property but instead he handed over the bill to her and added, “That’s your freedom cert … you are now at liberty to go anywhere you feel like without feeling bound or inferior to anyone in any way.”

The girl broke down, wept uncontrollably.  ‘You mean you paid that huge amount to set me free?’  She asked.  The man about to mount his horse and ride away, the freed held his legs and declared, “If you can pay that much to set me free, I won’t let go of you … wherever you’re going, I wanna go with you.” And so she followed him.

Is that not what Jesus did for you as well?  He paid a price for the debt He didn’t owe to get you a prize (freedom) you did not deserve.  You are so full in God’s mind, that’s why He’s mindful of you.  If He’s your all-in-all, He’ll grant all your heart’s desires.