Your Moment at the Well: Nothing is free if there is a requirement to work for it or to earn it in any way.
The Lord’s insight. Receiving and Giving freely develops in us the deeper nature of Christ.
Matthew 10:8: “Freely you have received, freely give.”
With the Lord, the things that are of the greatest value to us are things that are freely given to us. They cannot be bought, nor can they be earned. Perhaps the greatest thing of value that we have is our salvation. We are told this in Ephesians 2:8-9.
This is what it means to freely receive. The Lord does not have a price tag on any of the things He has for us. Everything we can have of Him is free to us. All we need to do is to freely receive. To freely receive means we accept with gladness and with thanksgiving and with respect and with humility the things that cannot be bought or paid for.
So, what does it mean to freely give? Well, it means we learn to freely give to others things of great value that they did not work for or earn. And since we did not work for or earn them, we give the things we have of the greatest value with no expectation of anything in return. You must learn to freely give.
Freely receiving and freely giving work together to develop the deeper nature of Christ in each of us. When we learn to freely receive, we develop the ability and the things of value that we can freely give.
There is no price or cost that can be placed on grace. So freely receive the grace of God so that you learn to freely give the grace of God.
There is no price or cost that can be placed on mercy. So freely receive mercy and freely give mercy.
There is no price or cost that can be placed on the Love of God. So freely receive His love and freely give His love.
We have nothing of any value that we can offer the Lord for the things He wants to give us anyway. We have no work that we can do for the Lord that will earn the things He wants to give us.
All He wants from us is for us to freely receive and to freely give. When we do this, we are transformed into His nature by the very things we freely receive of Him and by the things we freely give to others.
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” If we had to earn our salvation or work for it,
I’m afraid we would never have it. Freely receive His gifts and freely give His gifts.
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