Jesus cannot be asleep in our lives
There is not a single act of Jesus that was not prophesied in the Old Testament. He said on one occasion that he should fulfill everything that was written about him in the Law, in the Psalms and in the Prophets, that is, in the entire Old Testament (Luke 24:44). In certain situations, the Lord has done something or spoken things that are difficult to understand; others He spoke symbolically, and the people of the time understood clearly (Luke 20:17-19).
In Matthew 8:24, the Word narrates a storm that rose against the boat where the disciples were, and the sea became so rough that they were afraid of capsizing. In the midst of it all, Jesus slept. Why did Jesus sleep while men feared dying? To fulfill the prophecy of Psalm 44. “23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.” (Ps 44:23 and 26). When a man feels alone amid the great struggles that arise, he has let Jesus sleep in his heart. Many say to those in need: “trouble not the Master!” (Luke 8:49). Do not give way to spiritual sleep. Don't let Jesus sleep in your heart. God called man to die daily to the world and be born to a new life in Christ Jesus (Ps 44:22; Rom 8:36). Dying every day, spiritually speaking, is essential in the Salvation process so that the Holy Spirit can act in new life. Salvation is a new birth, as we read in John chapter 3. There must be a change in life. Every day, we deny what does not please the Lord so His Salvation can be wrought in our lives (Phil 2:12).
The ransom price of our soul
All things under heaven, every creative work has its equivalent price, and the same is found in the creative work itself. In Exodus 21, for example, we see about other people's cattle: whoever harmed his brother's ox had to replace it with another like it or pay the price in money. Land was purchased and redeemed for cash. Enslaved people were traded in various ways. Thus, everything in the material and human field had its estimated value determined. Therefore, everything is within the limit of the creative Work. We remember that God made the creative Work to exist for a determined time; that is, it had its beginning and will have its end. That is why we have already seen in Genesis 1:1 that the origin of the verb create, in the original writing of the word of God, comes from the verb Bará (בָּרָא). This verb meant creating from nothing to exist for a determined time. The creative Work and everything in it has an end, which is why it has a price. Man lives his life here limited to this time, and God wants to give him the condition of understanding that there is a project of his called Salvation so that he can have the opportunity to leave this temporal limit of the Creative Work and live in his eternity. However, the soul does not belong to the creative work but somewhat redemptive, spiritual work. It also has its price, and in the text of Psalm 49:6-8 and 15, we discover that it is costly and can only be redeemed by a spiritual equivalent, which belongs to the redemptive work. The redemptive Work is not limited by time, because it is God's project to rescue man (it is eternal because God is eternal: Ps 90:2). Thus, the price of the soul is not related to the material values stipulated in the Creative Work, for the time we live. Not all the resources in the world could redeem the price of a single Soul.
Who and how then can there be rescue for the soul? “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.” (Ps 49:15). The price was paid, and from the Bible we see that we were bought with a price (I Cor 6:20 and I Cor 7:23). Peter said that we were not bought with corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19). Jesus rescued our Soul, our life, taking the place in the grave that was for us (Mt 27:60). When we are in Jesus, the grave that was for us is no longer available, because we live for eternity. Our soul is precious to whom? Precious to the Father, who gave his only Son. High price He paid. Precious for the Son, who gave himself and suffered so much for us. Precious to the redeemed, who are grateful for undeserved remission (Ps 72:12-14)