I took my daughter with me on a quick run to the Home Depot this week to pick up some paint and a few other odds and ends for a project.
As I was waiting at the paint counter, she lost interest and began wandering over to the checkout counter.
She is a candy freak. She could sniff out a Skittle in the center of a 10' thick block of concrete, so finding candy on an end cap at her eye level was a given. She also managed to grab a 20oz. Sunkist from the refrigerator right next to it.
She took them over to the checkout all by herself and she handed the items to the young lady behind the counter. The lady looks at me as if to ask, "Do you want her to have these?"
I nodded to the lady that it was alright and gave her the finger........you know, the I'll be there in 1 minute finger.
Once the paint was ready I went over and paid for everything, including the pop and candy.
I'm a sucker.....and she knows it.
My daughter is only 3.
She has no source of income. She is flat broke. No matter what she did or how hard she tried, there is no way she could pay for the pop and candy.
But none of that matters. She got the pop and candy anyhow.
How is that possible?
Because my daughter has an ace in the hole.....her daddy.
I paid the cost for something she couldn't.
Because I love her.
We live in a fallen world. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, sin entered the framework, and it has driven a wedge between us and God ever since.
So how do sinners like ourselves get into the presence of a Holy God?
We can't do it by ourselves. We don't have the resources.
Someone else has to pay for our pop and candy.
Jesus paid for our sin the day he was pinned to the cross.
Jesus paid for our pop and candy.
And just like my daughter, all we have to do is accept the gift.
My daughter took the pop and candy, smiled at me and said, "Thank you daddy".
That was good enough for me.
It is good enough for God too.
