Even God used credit cards.

Satan knew that God longed to do something about the state of man's lost soul. He knew the old prophecies from the Scriptures. He knew that nothing but blood would pay off the debts that had accrued. And not just any blood would pay this huge bill either; it had to be God's own blood! Did God have blood, no! God is a Spirit! But God knew how to attain that blood. He knew that if he became human, or flesh, he could pay for the huge debt of sin.

Romans 5:9," being now justified by his blood"
Revelation 1:5..."and washed us from our sins with his own blood."

Satan may have said to God, "Look in your wallet, God, whad'ya got? Got enough to pay me to free these slaves on MINE?" If God had a wallet, it was just full of credit cards. Each credit card was maxed out, too! To pay off the enormous debt once and for all, Jesus had to pay with HIS OWN BLOOD.

Yes, God used credit....every time there was a blood sacrifice in the Old Testament, God was pushing his debt ahead; he was buying time. He pushed ahead the price of atonement for sins. After a man came and brought his sacrifice to the priest, he left the place of sacrifice and worship free from sin....for the time being anyway.


Satan knew that Jesus was God incarnate; God with us. God had planned to make a body specially prepared to be used to pay the final payment. Hebrews 10:4-5 "For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"

Jesus was not one part of the Godhead, or a part of deity, he was GOD residing in a body!

Don't ever be confused by the writings of some "theologian". Read the Scriptures, they illuminate themselves! God prepared a body...to move into...to inhabit..to live in for a divine purpose. Bethlehem was the birthplace of God's flesh or Son. The Son of God was not separate from God, he was God with skin on. There is only one God!

Think of this for a minute...for the last few months of Jesus' life, Satan kept getting more and more anxious. He knew that Jesus could have called on his angels to rescue him. So, Satan was not really sure what was going to happen. But when Jesus did NOT call for angelic assistance, but rather took the normal course of human crucifixion, he was shocked!

Satan thought, JESUS WAS JUST GOING TO TAKE IT?
He really was going to let them KILL HIM????

So, when Jesus breathed his last breath, Satan got excited...very excited! He knew that he had KILLED GOD! He knew God had nothing left in his wallet, he was BROKE! Bankrupt!


When Satan saw Jesus arrested, crucified, and heard him say, "It is finished!", Satan thought he had truly killed God. He reveled in the "fact" that he had finally won the BIGGEST BATTLE. He was the WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION! Now he could truly reign on the earth. Now, "I will finally be the only one worshiped", he surmised.

But on the third day.....

THE DEBTS WERE PAID OFF IN FULL FOREVERMORE. Jesus arose from the dead, you see only the body or flesh, or Son had died, not GOD. God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.

Jesus cut up his paid off credit cards to never need them again.
He had paid the ultimate price; never to need credit again. Everything was paid off and paid for, EVERYTHING.

Our salvation-redemption, healing, encouragement, miracles, eternal life, heaven, was paid for once and for all by the precious blood of Jesus.

How could anyone walk away from such a savior? Don't let doubts and fears block you from totally trusting Jesus, our REDEEMER.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

I know God rested on the seventh day, but what did he do while he was resting?

Have you ever thought of this? The other day I was thinking about the need and the blessing of having a day of rest and I began to ponder about the Lord's rest day; the Sabbath.

We are to enter into his rest, or as I choose to think, enter into his presence; give God our full, undivided attention. But God did not need to give himself attention. Or did he?

"For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his."....Hebrew 4:10

The writer of Hebrews states that God ceased or stopped doing his own works...God had been working feverishly for six creative days. Then he stopped his work his creativity and work to rest.

Health professionals tell us that a woman who gives birth expends so much emotional and physical energy that quite often she can suffer afterwards with a time of feeling very low. It has been called post-partum depression or "the baby blues". It's a time to restore and rebuild the heart, mind and body. It is a time for her family and loved ones to be extra kind and helpful.

God did not lose any strength while creating the world, but maybe he needed to step back and restore his perspective and reflect. No one really knows, but the Bible does say that we were make in the image of God. So, maybe the day of rest is to be a day of restoring our perspective and time of reflection. Whatever God did on his day of rest we may not know until we see him, but, he gave us an example to follow and I must say, that the Sabbath or day of rest is a wonderful day to be restored and refreshed.