The Irony Of Redemption
Posted by Dr. Reginald D. Terry on September 12th, 2009 filed in Comfort, Death, Grace, Love, Mercy, Praise, Salvation, ThanksgivingNot twenty minutes ago I made a hospital visit to the room of a gentleman who underwent a successful kidney transplant procedure last evening. We have been praying for Brian for a few years now that God would graciously allow him a chance to have a good kidney. The surgery went without-a-hitch; the new organ is an excellent match and is functioning fine. Brian told me he felt better than he had in years. Up and moving around, he was watching a football game with his family when I left his room.
As I drove back to my office, I thought about the anonymous donor family, and uttered a simple prayer for them in light of their apparent loss. To be sure, somebody—who we do not know—had to die in order for Brian to have this new opportunity to live a healthier, better quality of life.
His is no new irony! In fact, it is a very familiar paradox for many of us. We who know and enjoy redemption could not benefit from such were it not for the fact that Someone had to die that we might live. Bless His holy name!!!!!
The principle difference between these observations is clear. In Brian’s case, an accident made it possible for him to receive his new-lease-on-life. For you and I, it was no accident. Jesus died on purpose in order for us to have the privilege to live. Didn’t He do it?
Isn’t that good news?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:20 am
So many people fear death and we who are believer have come to realize that death is not the end for us. The death of Jesus was our “beginning”. “To live is Christ, to die is gain.” Jesus certainly did “do it.”