"For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead. Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life."
{Isaiah 43:3,4} (NIV 1984)
This Sovereign LORD is the Redeemer and Saviour of His people. He places His love on His people and He brings them out of slavery into glorious freedom! But there is a price for this that we cannot pay, for we are owned by another. In these verses the LORD tells Israel that He will give Egypt for them. That is, the LORD has decided that one group of humans will pay the price required for His people. This happened when the firstborn males of Egypt were killed, which caused Pharoah to let Israel go. This is a humbling truth, for an honest person knows that they don’t deserve someone dying in their place, especially children.
This act of salvation and redemption of the people of Israel was only a foretaste of what was to come. The New Testament teaches us that the LORD of all the earth loved the world so much that He sent His Son to the pay the price for us all (1 Jn 2:2). The Holy One, our Saviour, gave Himself for our ransom. His Life was given in exchange for ours. Why? The answer humbles us: because we are precious and honoured in His sight.
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Rom 8:32)
Oh friend, give glory to His Name!
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