This saying has always disturbed me, but it is so true. I had always interpreted this phrase as a negative. If you are cheap and don’t want to pay the price for the more costly item, you get something that eventually falls apart. Paying for the more costly item, you get a better result—something that took time to build, was better made, and longer-lasting.
I look at it differently now from a sobriety perspective.
In our addiction, we paid with our lives. It cost us dearly and the pain was great. There was no shortcut way out. But what we gain by paying the price of walking through the pain and not around it is unmatched and priceless.
Paid with self.
We gave up self. We stepped out of self and into caring for others. Into service. Self-seeking has slipped away. We turned our will and our lives over to the care of God.
We are—
Renewed.
Reconnected.
Reborn.
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Ephesians 4:22-24
Click on my books below to buy.
