Bought with the Blood of Jesus.

 Bought with Your Blood

A Reflection on 1 Peter 1:18-19

Bought with Your blood—not with silver or with gold,

Not with treasures that this dying world can hold.

No earthly currency could pay the price so steep,

No human sacrifice could reach the chasm deep.

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed... but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (1 Peter 1:18-19)

Bought with Your blood—the crimson flowing stream,

That washed away my guilt and freed me from my dream

Of earning my own way, of climbing to the sky.

You paid it all—I need not try.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. (Ephesians 1:7)

Bought with Your blood—I am not my own.

I was a slave, abandoned and alone.

But You came searching, found me in the night,

And bought me back into the Father's light.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings. (1 Corinthians 7:23)

Bought with Your blood—what love is this,

That the King of glory would trade His throne for a kiss

Of reconciliation, for a rebel's embrace,

And leave His righteousness in my sin's place?

God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

So I will live my life for You alone,

A grateful heart before Your throne.

Bought with Your blood—the highest price,

My sacrifice of praise, my living sacrifice.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. (Romans 12:1)

Bought with Your blood.

Forever Yours.

Amen.