I wonder if any of you are like me, too cheap, at times.
Sometimes we need to quit thinking so “cheap”. “Cheap thinking” is, by my personal definition, trying so hard to save a dime that we work against our own natural energy and strength.
For example, I’ve been changing things up a little in my home. My mantle has always presented a challenge. I had this great little card table that used to sit in front of the fireplace on the floor. (Naturally, I didn’t take pictures.)
Anyway, it was a card table I painted white and in the middle was a deer head. I had a brain spasm one day and decided, “Hey, I’ll take the table apart and hang it on the wall.”
Great idea, huh?
Well, it would’ve been had I not decided the deer head was too small. So, I took it down, peeled off the deer head (it was paper), enlarged it, traced it on some heavy board, cut it out, re-pasted to the table and put it back up on the mantle. Still didn’t like it.
So I spent a considerable amount of time looking around the house for something I could put together quickly. Nothing caught my eye.
That’s when I gave in and decided to go shopping. Now, to me, that’s a failure. It means I’m going to spend money on something I wanted to make myself.
I do this all the time. I can be so cheap, I put extra stress on myself. So I gave in bought this rusty windmill.
I’m not particularly fond of the other items; I need more “bulk”, but that’s going to have to wait.
Besides, this is Holy Week.
A reminder that while:
Grace is free, it isn’t cheap.
Grace was purchased at a huge price. Grace could’ve been purchased “cheaper”, maybe without the death of God’s only son. But God put too precious of a price on our heads; it demanded a huge sacrifice.
Thank goodness, God looked down on his people and decided not to hold back. Thank goodness, God is not like me, cheap.
God bless and have a wonderful Easter weekend and remember that God considers you priceless.
When I think about “cheap” I sometimes think of people who “cheapen” the grace of God.
As I’ve said often:
Grace is free but itsn’t cheap.
