MySpace (part 1) REDEEMED!

When our family room was being built, my husband prophesied that the living room would be rendered useless. And he was right. For a few years, the living room served as a rather large foyer. We, and our guests, walked right through it to get to the kitchen and family room, the hub of the house. Truthfully, the living room had become a giant dust collector.
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Then, in January, my husband’s aunt moved. In her downsizing, we purchased an old, slightly dilapidated piece of furniture from her that I had long admired. After applying some elbow grease, her tall secretary was placed in our family room, and our smaller desk was moved to a corner in the living room. As I rearranged the furniture in that abandoned room, I started to get excited. I had a space of my own…MySpace!
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My newfound space in the front of the house is somewhat removed from the noise in the back of the house. I assembled my treasures in clear view (more on that tomorrow). The desk stores my “new” (well, new to me) laptop computer. And thanks to the miracle of wireless technology, I can surf the world wide web from my little corner of the world and even print out documents on our printer in the next room!
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I needed a seat for the desk and found a stool the perfect height for $25, reduced from $129.99 due to a minor flaw that I covered with a fashionable throw! Oh, isn’t God good!!

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Sometimes, my husband even joins me, sprawled out on the couch with a magazine or his laptop. The room has been redeemed! So how wonderful it is for me to write in this redeemed space about our Redeemer!
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Redemption involves recovering something by paying the debt against it. A redeemer is one who buys back, or pays ransom, or makes amends. There are many passages of Scripture in the Old Testament (especially in Isaiah) that speak of God being the redeemer of his people, and the New Testament tell us that Jesus, the Son of God, is our redeemer.
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So what can I say about our Redeemer?
- He gives us a new name and purpose
- He redeems us, but we were never forgotten or abandoned
- He makes us useful
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And what does the Word say about our Redeemer?
- He redeemed my soul from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light. Job 33:28
- My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I, whom you have redeemed. Psalm 71:23
- Let the redeemed of the LORD say so— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe. Psalm 107:2
- But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1
- "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. Galatians 3:14
- For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers. 1 Peter 1:18

Susan