A Favorable Exchange Rate

“In the very place where it was said to them,

    ‘You are not my people,’

    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

Romans 9:26

 

 

So you’re traveling to another country and you need the currency of that country.

What are you hoping for?

A favorable exchange rate!

You want to go to the bank and give them your cash in exchange

for the cash used in your destination country.

But more than that, you want the value of that money to allow you greater purchasing power.

That would truly be a favorable exchange rate.

There is no more favorable exchange rate than the exchange we can make with heaven.

We bring God our sin and He takes it from us through the work of the cross.

But it doesn’t stop there.

He adopts us as His children and gives us an inheritance.

But it doesn’t stop there either.

We can ‘exchange’ our faith for the will of God to be done in the earth.

We can use the ‘currency of heaven’ – faith – to bring His purposes to bear on the earth.

Jesus knew the ‘secret’ of faith working through obedient submission to the Father.

He brought heaven to earth.

We are to do the same.

Jesus did great works.

He said of His followers…greater works!

He made possible an exchange so favorable that those who were once dead in trespasses and sin (you and me) are now made alive and show forth His praises in the earth.

What an exchange!