Friend, do you say that God's salvation, as a gift, is too easy? True, all you need do is receive that gift and with it you are assured of eternal life. Yes, it is easy for you. But consider! What did that wondrous work on Calvary cost God, the Father of Him who wrought that work?
God gave His own Son a ransom for us poor, lost sinners. God gave the holy One for transgressors, the blameless One for the wicked, the righteous One for the unrighteous, the incorruptible One for the corruptible, the immortal One for them that are mortal.
For what else could have cleansed us from sin but His precious blood? Who was capable of covering our lost condition but the shed blood of God's Lamb? By what other one was it possible that we, wicked and ungodly, could be justified before God except by the sacrifice of the only Son of God?
Oh, what love! What grace! What mercy God has shown through Christ to worthless mortals! Through the agony of Him who has gone through death, burial and resurrection, the beloved Son of God the Father was given to save sinners and bring them into eternal blessing. What a price! And what a Gift!