I had a friend whose husband bought a small house with a
mortgage. They kept paying but, being poor,
they could never keep up the payments.
When her husband died, the house was still not his. He owed as much as when he started. There was no money in the family. Unless someone comes from outside, they will
lose the house. They need someone to
redeem the house.
The same thing happens to rich people, especially in these
days of access bonds. We keep paying,
but we keep drawing out. We can get to
retirement and have less house than we started with 40 years before. We have been unable to redeem the house by
paying off enough, and it still belongs to the bank.
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When I have really honest moments, I can see that there are
some less-than-beautiful things that I think and do. Perhaps there is something good that I owe
the universe, some way of being that is part of what is means to be alive, and
I am not getting it right.
If God meant us to be “holy and blameless” (see http://outsiders-urbanspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/blessing.html),
why do I find that I have a dark side? Why do we have to be adopted as his children (http://outsiders-urbanspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/being-somebody.html
), why aren’t we automatically his children?
Our letter doesn’t answer these questions! But it does
assume that we experience that life doesn’t measure up, that I don’t get it
right. The writer tells us that God has
done something about the dark side. He
gives us more insight into how the adoption works.
He uses the image of something (or someone, in the world of that time with the prevalence of slavery) being
bought back. If a debt is incurred,
surety is required and that surety is forfeit until the debt is paid. Our letter suggests that, just as someone in
those days whose debt was too big to pay off was sold as a slave, we ourselves
are forfeit. But a friend or relative
can come and buy back the house, or redeem the person who has been
enslaved.
In the same way “we have redemption through his blood”. God has bought us back, but at great
cost. Now we begin to find out how the “spiritual
blessings” (http://outsiders-urbanspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/who-is-there.html
) are related to Jesus. It is his death,
“through his blood”, that has bought our redemption. We owed our lives and he has bought us.
The Bible: Ephesians 1:7
http://www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/online-bible/?translation=niv&book=ephesians&chapter=1
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