At noon on Good Friday, the world became “black” with complete darkness for three hours (Mark 15:33) as the Son of God, Love’s True Light, absorbed the entirety of humanity’s curse; spending His life for ours.
It was from this first Black Friday, we first became the beneficiaries of the best FREE deals in Heaven. We became the recipients of His “I-never-run-out-and-I AM-always-open” grace offers.
Recently the Lord said to me: “Stop Spending.” I was perplexed by this and began asking Him what He meant as I am not a big shopper and didn’t think He was referring to finances. A few days later, He led me to a portion of scripture I knew well but needed to be reminded of.
At the time, I had been feeling much like hodgepodge stuffed inside an instant pot with the pressure building. Have you ever just felt “spent?” Well, I knew that I knew that I had been striving mentally and emotionally. I had not been resting in His love, enjoying the peace that flows from sitting down on the mercy seat of His finished work.
And that’s when Holy Spirit revealed I had been spending my time, strength, peace, soul-health, joy and energy on trying to get what was already mine. I was also wasting my precious expenditures on distractions and that which did not satisfy.
“Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy]. Isaiah 55:2 AMPC
Jesus was and is saying, “Be still and settle back into My Shalom and supply. Come sit in My presence and listen to My life-giving words. Purchase with My blood My goodness and grace. Receive from Me simply by being with Me. Let go of the need to do it all, figure it out, make it happen or be in control. The law cannot save you. You cannot earn My righteousness. Your wages of willpower don’t work in My economy. It’s your simple trust in Me to do it all that transfers My all to you.”
Whatever you’ve got left in your soul-account, just come! Jesus is your SAVING-account. And His balance is endless. Feel like you have nothing left to bring? Got nothing to give?
Your Giving God says, “Good!”…“Come anyway…buy without money—everything’s free! Why do you spend your money on junk food, your hard-earned cash on cotton candy? Listen to me, listen well: Eat only the best, fill yourself with only the finest… from now on I AM the One who answers and satisfies…everything you need is to be found in Me!” (Isaiah 55:2, Hosea 14:8 msg).
Beloved, Jesus is the best Black Friday deal you’ll ever encounter. And the best part is you get to shop from Him every day just by spending your heart on His love for you. He already paid your debt so you can choose the currency of surrender and the fiat of faith to acquire all the world could never offer you.
Resting In His Love,
Annalee Reyes