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Redemption - His Twice
Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 3, 2023 (message contributor)
A little boy worked diligently to build a sailboat.
He took it to the lake and pushed it in hoping it would sail.
Sure, enough a wisp of breeze filled the little sail and it billowed and went rippling along the waves.
Suddenly before the little boy knew it, the boat was out of his reach, even though he waded in fast and tried to grab it.
As he watched it float away, he hoped maybe the breeze would shift and it would come sailing back to him.
Instead, he watched it go farther and farther until it was gone.
When he went home crying, ... his mother asked, "What's wrong, didn't it work?"
He replied, "It worked too well... and it sailed away."
A week later, the little boy was downtown and walked past a secondhand store.
There in the window he saw the sailboat.
It was unmistakably his, so he went in and told the proprietor, "That's my boat."
He walked to the window, picked it up and started to leave.
The owner of the shop said, "Wait a minute, Sonny. That's my boat. I bought it from someone a few days ago.
" The boy said, "No, it's my boat. I made it. See."
And he showed him the little scratches and the marks where he hammered and filed.
The man said, "I'm sorry.
If you want it, you have to buy it."
The fellow went home and grabbed his piggy bank and ran back to the store.
He broke open the piggy bank on the counter and said this everything I have.
As he left the store holding the boat close to him, he was heard saying,
"You're my boat.
You're twice my boat.
First you're my boat 'cause I made you ... and second you're 'cause I ... bought you!"
God has done for us... what we are unable to do... for ourselves.
Beloved you are God's.
Twice His.
First, you are His because He created you ... He made you.
And second, you are His because He bought you.
Jesus paid the ultimate price ... the full price to redeem you.
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