A few years ago, I heard one of my very favorite singing groups, the Morrison Sisters, who just so happen to also be my very good friends, sing a song that was new to me. It begins like this:
“He was born in a stable, in a borrowed manger, he borrowed a lunch to feed a lot of strangers, he borrowed a colt to ride into town on, he borrowed a tomb, but he wouldn’t need it long … “
Pastor Bo WagnerThat song, “The Only Thing He Bought Was Me,” written by Pastor Joe Anders, has become one of my favorites. The chorus goes like this:
“And the only thing he bought was me, when he shed his blood on Calvary, I’m redeemed by his blood for eternity, Oh the only thing he bought was me.”
When I first heard that song, I was struck by the truth of it, mostly because it is something so obvious, and yet it is one of those obvious things that somehow never even occurred to me. In his lifetime, Jesus is recorded as borrowing more things than he ever owned. He was utterly unconcerned with accumulating either wealth for his lifetime or a grand mausoleum to own in death.