DEVOTION//God's Unilateral Pricing Policy

Have you noticed that there are some items that are priced the same no matter where you shop for them?

Some manufacturers insist that retailers must sell their products for no less than a certain amount.  That means the television you want to buy will be priced the same at Best Buy or Amazon. If there is a difference in price, it's because one retailer has decided to mark up its television beyond the minimum.

The practice of insisting that a product must be sold for at least a minimum amount is called a Unilateral Pricing Policy (UPP).

The gospel comes with a Unilateral Pricing Policy. But there's a difference with the gospel's UPP. God insists no one is permitted to add anything to the gospel's minimum mark-up.

How much is that mark-up? Zero. Nada. Nothing.

God's grace comes to us as a gift. Jesus paid the complete purchase price for our adoption into his family with his blood. Our forgiveness was entirely paid for on Good Friday and entirely guaranteed on Easter.

Grace's UPP assures, "It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).

Jesus left nothing for us to do to be right with God. Jesus left nothing that needs to be added to the gospel.

No money needs to be exchanged. No amount of holy living is needed. Wearing the right clothes, eating the right food, praying with the right posture, worshiping in the right place or in the right way is not needed to purchase God's grace.

It's free. God's grace and forgiveness are free. That's the gospel's Unilateral Pricing Policy.