day no. 15,560: the price and the prize

Romans 11:36
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.

"All that we have is of God, and through Him, and in Him." -- Jonathan Edwards, God Glorified in Man's Dependence from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards edited by H. Norman Gardiner

God is the price, the payor, the payee, and the prize. It is to God that payment must be made. It is God Himself who pays the fine. It is God Himself who is provided as the payment. It is God Himself who is the purchase of those redeemed. He is the price and the prize, the payor and the payee. He is our everything. The source and the sustenance, the cloud and the ocean, the ground and the treetop, the thirst and the slake, the hunger and the feast.