Redemption is buying back with the purpose of setting free. According to this Scripture, we (believers) have it. As a result of that redemption that we have, we also have forgiveness of sins. Then in Romans 3:2424Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Romans 3:24) it tells us that another result, contingent on that redemption, is that we are justified. Just think of it—the price paid to buy us back to God is so complete that not only are all our sins forgiven, but we are looked at by God Himself as righteous.
“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight” (Matt. 11:25-2625At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 26Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. (Matthew 11:25‑26)).
It was the time of the Lord’s rejection by His people Israel. What, naturally speaking, would have been so hard, the Lord looks up in perfect confidence and accepts from the hand of His Father and even thanks Him. What seemed to make no sense to the wise and prudent (those who leaned on their own understanding) was revealed to babes (those who trusted in the Lord with all their hearts and accepted in the simplicity of faith what their Father had ordered for their own good). Then the Lord Jesus speaks of His yoke and the rest that comes from taking it. A yoke is often used for work, but there is rest in work when we are yoked with the Lord Jesus.
The Lord Jesus knew that He would raise Lazarus from the dead. Why then the groaning and weeping? It is because He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. What troubles us and makes us weep, even now as our great High Priest He feels and accordingly intercedes for us. No trial is out of reach for Him.
Job thought that he trusted God completely, but the fact that he maintained his own ways showed He really didn’t trust as He should. When, at the end, he was brought to see God and His greatness, Job bowed in humbleness with no more self-defense. Then God turned the captivity of Job. We often convince ourselves we trust God when really it is only self-confidence that none but God sees. In faithfulness and perfect wisdom God allows us to be painfully broken until we, ceasing to struggle, turn from ourselves. It is then we can appreciate in greater fullness all that He is for us.
R. Thonney