The Precept of Exchange and the Non Negotiable

UV 3748/10000 The Precept of Exchange and the Non Negotiable Because you are precious in My sight, you are honoured and I love you, I will give other men in return for you and other peoples in exchange for your life. Isaiah 43 v 4 Exchange is both a worldly principle and practice even as it is a spiritual precept and practice. The value of a thing is determined by what we are willing to give in exchange for it. Whatever we are not willing to give in exchange for anything is called non negotiable. In this uni-verse, the Lord God declares each human who trusts Him and is committed to Him as a bride to a man as someone precious in His sight. We are special to God. We are exclusive and are given exquisite gifts. He honours us as a groom honours his bride with precious gifts. He affirms His love for us. Further, He commits to give lives in exchange for us. Human salvation is not free of cost to God though it is free for us. A cost had to be paid in real time and space. Here, God pledges that He is ready to give even nations to rescue His beloved, to ransom us from the captivity of the enemy who has abducted our souls and spirits. In His reckoning, a single man or a few, as few as ten people are more valuable than an entire nation that disbelieves. He regards us as more valuable or most valuable. But even entire nations not being a sufficient payment for our eternal freedom, He sent His own Son, welded to His own Being to be the ransom, the payment ofr all and for all time. Exchange is both a worldly principle and practice even as it is a spiritual precept and practice. Each of us, then is as precious as Jesus is in the sight of the Father. Jesus, today, is honoured above all names in history. The Father declares Him as His beloved Son to whom we should listen. Our way of acknowledging our eternal debt to God, our thanksgiving and praise is to listen to Jesus, the Word of God. When we listen to the word, we honour both the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit who illumines it to our understanding. It is amazing how God traverses the paradox of being both exclusive in His love and inclusive in His acceptance of all human beings who confess their faith in Him and His Word. Jesus is the most indescribable and exquisite gift that mankind needed, individually and collectively. The word says that He has scattered gifts to the poor or in other words, to us who are spiritually poor, He gifts us with understanding of His word. He causes us to triumph over our common enemy. He redeems us not to be captured again but to be set free forever.