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Day 282 Proverbs 27:13 Proverbs 27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Have you ever pawned anything? Do you know anyone who has? Life isn’t sure. There are times when people need help and have nowhere else to turn but to pawn shops. Solomon spoke many times about taking pledges from strangers and strange women. Strange women was the term he used for harlot. He said to do so because often the item was never redeemed. When sin entered the world, we all became strangers to God. Jesus became surety for us. He also became our redeemer. Jesus pledged himself to God his Father for us and laid down his life to redeem us from Satan who held our pledge, our life. Jesus paid the ransom price for our sin so we would no longer be strangers to God. When you accept the finished work of redemption, you accept Jesus as Savior and Lord and that Satan no longer holds your pledge. You are free from Satan’s hold on your life. Satan is no longer the pawnbroker for your life because Jesus redeemed your life. When Jesus proclaimed from the cross, ‘It is finished,’ the ransom price had been paid and Satan no longer had the hold on your life he had when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. Have you accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord? Have you accepted that you were redeemed and Satan no longer owns you? Let’s pray: Father, thank you for sending Jesus to pay the ransom for my sin and Satan no longer holds me, but I am free. Help me live as your redeemed child, and not as one still held by Satan for ransom. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen. Copyright © 18 June 2017 by Valerie Routhieaux Image courtesy of Pixabay