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Debbie Childers: You Gotta’ Hear This — A Free Gift

Columnist Debbie Childers reminds us that when God tells us that His gift of salvation is free, He really means it! We don’t have to earn it or pay for it. We just have to receive.
  • March 13, 2024
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Debbie Childers: You Gotta’ Hear This — A Free Gift

My 7-year-old granddaughter is adorable with her big eyes, engaging personality, beautiful smile and long blond hair. I can’t say no to her.

Lately, she has been making bracelets with elastic and beads. They are really cute. At her brother’s ballgame, she came up to me and put a pink and purple bracelet on my wrist and said, “I made this for you, Granna.”

I thanked her and gushed over it. But she just stood in front of me staring at me like she was waiting for me to do something else, so I gushed some more. She still didn’t move. Finally, she extended her open palm to me and said, “that will be two dollars.”  

Questionable tactics

So guess what I did? I paid her two dollars! And she went back to play with her friends. Later, she came back with six dollars. I asked where she had gotten that much money and of course she answered, “I sold some bracelets.”

“Let me guess,” I said. “You let them think it was a gift, and then you asked for two dollars?”

“Well, yeah … that’s the only way they will buy them,” she answered.

No strings attached

Aren’t you glad that when God tells us that His gift of salvation is free, He really means it? We don’t have to earn it or pay for it. We just have to receive it!

Jesus paid the price for our salvation in full but we get the salvation He purchased, with all the blessings, mercies, fruitfulness and everything else that accompanies it. That truly is a free gift. 

EDITOR’S NOTE – Debbie Childers is a humorist and Bible study teacher. Her new book – “The Basics of Life: What Does the Bible Really Say?” – is a detailed look at what you got when you got saved and what you became when you became a Christian. The good news about your identity and inheritance in Christ might be even better than you realize!
The book is available at Amazon.  

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