Immeasurable

1 Peter 1:17-19
"Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect."


There is so much in this passage that we could talk about, but I want to narrow it down to one point. I've mentioned in a previous post that the most probable reason unbelievers don't respect God and Christianity in general is because we don't. We say we serve a great, almighty, all-worthy, omnipotent, glorious God, but then treat Him like He's none of those things. We use His name in vain as often as those who don't even believe He exists, we disobey Him, and treat His people and His house as if they are worth nothing. No wonder people aren't willing to believe what we say! We hardly act like we do!


This passage points out something worth mentioning. Here it says to live as strangers here on earth, because we were not redeemed with something of measurable value, but with something of immeasurable value: the precious blood of Christ. The wild thing about God is He's immeasurable. You can't properly describe how big He is because everything to which we compare Him is measurable. I can say that a million suns times a thousand million is like a grain of sand next to the sun (the sun being God), but that isn't accurate because if you multiply that grain of sand enough times, it would eventually get to be the size of the sun. You can even rightly compare something measurable to something that's not. In the same way that God is immeasurably big, He's immeasurably perfect and worthy.


For He who is immeasurably perfect and worthy to die for us is huge. Huge. Like, we can't even begin to fathom how big that is. He is SO worthy, SO holy, SO perfect, that nothing we use to describe Him can even come close to coming close to being accurate. He died for us. His blood, SO precious, so much more valuable than anything measurable could ever come close to, was poured out for us.


We treat His blood like that kind of sacrifice is a thing mundane and earthly. We treat it like it's silver or gold. Here on earth those things are worth a lot, but when you consider that at the end of time, when everything physical passes away, that gold will simply pass way like everything else, it's worth nothing. In view of eternity, we need to start treating His sacrifice like it's immeasurable. We weren't redeemed by anything so mundane as gold or silver, but with the precious blood of the Lamb, and it's time we started acting like it.