I don’t know about you, but I always look for specials, especially the things I like.  

One of my favorites is buy one get one free, especially when it comes to ice cream!

I often stop and wonder at the buy one get one free or Bogo principal; are you really getting it for free?

Or did the store actually overstocked and now they are selling it at close to what they paid for it? Or,  have you been paying so much in advance they can actually afford to sell it to you for “1/2 price”

Because you know they’re not gonna lose money on a product and  they’re still making a profit even if they’re giving you one for free!

Same goes with frequent flyer miles.  How can you pay $532 for a trip and then turn around and use miles that you’ve already paid for and get the same trip for $13?!? 

The math just doesn’t add up, in either case if buy one get one free or getting something you’ve already paid for less.  

Then my heart stops and just as God always does and He reminds me that the most priceless thing comes for free… my salvation and through Christ Jesus a restored relationship with God the Father. 

“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.(Eph 2: 8-9 NIV)

And in the spoken words of the Author and perfector  of our faith Jesus,

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life”. (John 3:16 NIV).  

But there was a price paid, that makes it a free gift to us…. by God in heaven above through the Cross of Jesus Christ.  

“Jesus is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”( 1 John 2:2 NIV)

My redemption from all my sin, paid for out a price by God in heaven above, through the gift of His one and only Son…better than any bogo ever known!

Lord help me to remember today the price paid on the cross for me for all who by faith believe in your Son as Lord and Savior. Father help me to be a light into the world, all for Your glory!

Amen.