Something for Nothing!

This is an extract of an advert in a local paper advertised by a donut shop:

‘FREE!  3 DONUTS, WHEN YOU BUY 3 AT THE REGULAR HALF-DOZEN PRICE’

If that rather confusing statement means you can buy six donuts for the price of six, it’s not exactly a bargain!  So many of the seemingly great buys in our world are like deceptive advertisements.  You end up receiving nothing for something, when you thought it would be the other way round.  Think about it in spiritual terms.  Various religions require a long list of activities in exchange for what amounts to hopelessness.  One religion, for instance, expects its adherents to eat only leftovers, never injure a living thing and denounce all preferences of sounds, colours, smells and people.  In return for all this meaningless (and impossible) self-denial, the individual hopes to be reincarnated to a better life.

In reality, spiritual rewards are God’s to give and He does so on the basis of His Grace.  Only God’s plan of salvation offers something that is truth (Rom.4:5).  Christ paid the price for our redemption; all He asks is that we put our faith in Him.  Any other plan is nothing for something.

Bro. E. Kagogodza, Concession, Zimbabwe