Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The Love Exchange

UV 692/10,000 The Exchange “ Since you are precious and honoured 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 v 4 It is difficult to love even the people whom we can see and interact with. To truly love means to be willing to exchange our life for their affection and their interest, to be willing to sacrifice for the one loved, to enjoy that person’s company, words and ways. It is difficult to love God whom we do not see and do not interact with unless God reveals or manifests His love for us. The difficulty of loving God is not only is He invisible to our eyes but He is so big and infinite. Scripture says that even “the nations are like a drop in a bucket” before Him. Yet, when God chose to reveal Himself in His Son Jesus and gave Him in exchange for our lives, He made manifest and as clear as daylight His love for us. Those who love Jesus and believe He came from God are loved by God Himself. As Jesus said, “ I am in them and they are in me” and we are one with God. Man has set up foreign exhanges and stock exchange but the Lord has set up the Love Exchange. When we obey the voice of God and keep His covenant and His commandments, we are a peculiar or special treasure unto God above all people. He has brought us out of darkness and gross darkness into His marvelous light- the light of His Word and His righteousness. He has so brought us out to declare His praises and to be zealous of good works for His glory or satisfaction. On account of our faith in Jesus, we are as precious and honoured in the sight of the Lord as the Son of God Himself. Jesus took the place of countless millions in history. That exchange took place at Calvary cross. We begin to change for the better after that exchange in our spirits. Thereafter, too the Lord exchanges people to spare our lives. A family heirloom or inheritance is precious in the eyes of its owner not because of the price it commands in the market or on account of the precious metal of which it is made or the jewels encrusted on it. It is precious as many memories of many generations are associated with the heirloom in the mind and heart of the owner. He takes it out from his treasure chest from time to time to just look at it. If he loses it, he is willing to give any price to get it back. Similarly, the Lord is willing to give men, to give people in exchange for our lives. This promise fulfilled was spoken to me when I survived the ‘human bomb blast’ at Sriperumbudur. 18 people lost their lives there. Some of the men and one woman I posted died in the blast. The Lord said, “ I have given people in exchange for your life for you are precious and honoured in my sight.” For the people above me, my life was expendable in comparison with the VIP and my name was even included in the list of the dead in the first despatch of the government. Prateep V Philip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8yJHejtPpw Listen to this Blessong:

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