I used to watch the Price is Right with my grandma when I was a little girl. It would alwasy irk me when a contestant would suggest $1.00 for an item that was worth way more. It was like a whatever answer, an I don't feel like guessing or I think everyone way overestimated the actual price of the item so I won't even bother trying type of gesture.
What thrilled and often surprised me was the knack of people that could guess within dollars the "actual retail price" for some weird item like a commercial sized popcorn machine that you knew full-well they would auction off at their earliest convenience, or some really impractical item for a college student playing the game. So called "luck" or doing their homework before the game paid off…and it showed.
I'm that $1.00 contestant. I don't get the sacrifice Jesus made for me…for others….because if I did get it…I mean really get it…I'd be content to eat once a day in support of my brothers and sisters that don't get to eat at all overseas, I could skip fast food altogether, fast even, not buy anything new for awhile, carpool with someone to work, be better at consistantly tithing, respect my body and excercise like I should….but I think I have tomorrow and the next day and the next to just make changes a different day. Pppft! What a waste of a girl that Christ died for… what a $1.00 bid on a life that can be so much richer in Christ. The price was wrong very wrong and He did it anyway. Jesus teach me how to sacrifice…really make sacrifices in EVERY area of my life…not because its the "christian" thing to do…but because you ask me to…and I supposedly call myself a christian…that loves you.
I want to be that contest that is crazy excited jumping up and down because they just won the most amazing gift EVER…each and every day of my life.
