Moment of Meditation: Ransom for All (1 Timothy 2:6)

[Christ Jesus] gave Himself as a ransom for all,
the testimony to which was borne at the proper time.
(1 Timothy 2:6)

Ransom for All

C.S. Lewis captures the idea of Christ's ransom for all with his character named Ransom in his Space Trilogy. A voice speaks to him, "It is not for nothing that your name is Ransom. My name is also Ransom" (Perelandra). Elwin Ransom's battle with the Un-Man on Perelandra to keep that world from falling into sin echoes Jesus' battle with Satan over your soul.

St. Jude shows us this from the early years of Israel's history: "But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you'" (v9). Michael came to retrieve Moses' body and bury it (Deuteronomy 34:5-6). He didn't just let Satan have it as his own because Moses had been ransomed by Jesus.

Jesus has ransomed you by His death on the cross. He has taken you out from under God's wrath and put you into His loving arms. You have been ransomed by the one whose name is also Ransom. Amen.