Everything in life is a trade-off. When you go to work, you are giving a portion of your life to your boss, and he is giving you money in exchange. If you make $25 an hour for eight hours, your boss is giving you $200 for a day of your life that you will never get back. And when you go to the grocery store and give the cashier $200 for those bags of groceries, they represent a day of your life. Time is money, and money is time. My wife said, with a pouty mouth, “I hate for you to have to do the laundry.” To which I replied, “I don’t. I just put the clothes in this machine, with laundry soap and fabric softener, and the machine does all the work.” But back to my $25 an hour or $200 a day, I traded three days of my life for that machine … and another few minutes of my life for the water and the electricity to operate it. Our labor-saving devices must be paid for along with the electric and water bills. Again, time is money. Oh, I could save that money for the machines, electricity, and water, but I would have to carry my dirty clothes to the creek and beat them in cold water against a stone. But the best trade-off ever was when Jesus Christ paid the debt for my sins! He paid a debt He did not owe, and I owed a debt I could not pay! I exchanged my sins for His eternal life! And in gratitude for eternal life, I have decided to live a life here on earth for Jesus Christ! Paul said it best in Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” What a wonderful exchange!
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