Redemption

Redemption:

the purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom.

This redemption thing really came alive to me for some reason this morning.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I've been watching "24" all week which illustrates this concept in every episode.  Like when Agent Walker gets taken by the "bad guys"  her boss, and obviously the man that loves her, is terribly upset and does everything he can to get her back.  Its a great picture of God's broken heart for the people he loves that have been taken by "the evil one," and how he searches us out to get us back.  Jesus' death made more sense to me when I viewed it as the ransom that had to be paid, there was nothing else that could have set me free, God gave his son's life for me because he was all that would suffice.  I would never say that I was worth dying for...but God said so, and He did everything He needed to to get me back.