The credit check

So ask me about 15 years ago what credit is. I would tell you it's something that credit cards charge you to make money off of your purchases. That was all we knew wasn't it, we thought we knew how things worked and what made the world go round. Then, you drive a truck for about 10 years, decide it is time for a new one and go try to make a purchase. They pull your credit report, they scan it then they pull all 3 scores. Then you find out if they award your interest rate based on your beacon score, your lowest score or the average. Then, you start to sweat a little because you remember that time you missed a payment on something, or that credit card you allowed to get too close to the limit and you are currently trying to pay it down. I've beent here, this was me in 2000 buying the truck I now drive.
The credit check was something I didn't fully understand, and now I get it. Basically you are on trial for every purchase and every business transaction you have made for the past few years, the judge is the bank, and the jury is all of your past debts.
Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
That is music to my ears, I don't know about you. I am so glad that I don't have to stand trial, or even go through a credit check with God to accept His free gift of salvation. If I did, I would do more than sweat. Think about it, if every thing you had done wrong in just the past year was on a report the day you decided to accept Christ, and He was looking down it and adding up your "sin credit report." You would walk away before the verdict even came out. Knowing there was no way you could be saved.
But the Good News is that it doesn't work that way, and God shows us His love in the fact the Easter happened, Jesus God's own Son died on a cross without a trial, or even so much as a credit check. Why, because God knows we could never, ever measure up to that.
That is love, true love, a God sending a Savior to a sinner such as I am.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend. I am speaking at Super Dads at Southwoods Elementary early tomorrow and then working Field Day so I probably won't have time to update the blog, have a great weekend. And make sure you're in God's house somewhere on Palm Sunday!