As some of you may know, I am currently on the hunt of a youth ministry position. So I have spent a lot of time writing resumes, cover letters, doing interviews, and talking with churches to try to get them to hire me. I certainly don’t enjoy the process. One of the things that I don’t like is the “salesmanship” aspect of it. I am essentially having to sell myself and my ministry experience to other people, in the hope that they’ll “buy” me for their church. This doesn’t mean any of the stuff I put out there is not true, but its difficult for me because by nature I am not big into selling myself.

It got me thinking about the events that happened today 2000 years ago. What if we had to submit a resume to God? What if we had to promote ourselves to God? What would that look like? I think it would look like this -

- Attend church weekly (sort of)

- Own 3 Bibles (and know where 2 of them are!)

- Never killed anyone

- Memorized John 3:16

- I am a good person (better than those people down the street anyways)

Aren’t those often the typical answers you might get if you ask someone why they are going to heaven? If we are more “mature in the faith” we might scoff at such an answer, all the while giving a much more polished resume. Maybe listing all the good things you do at church. Perhaps telling of the many sacrifices you have given. Maybe even giving a rundown of how many times you’ve avoided sin when others have fallen.

But its a day like Easter that causes us to look at our resumes and realize that they are nothing but “filthy rags” as Isaiah puts it in Isaiah 64:6. No matter how good our resume is, how good of a person we are, we could never earn heaven! But, the amazing thing is that God wants us anyways. He looked at our lives, our sins, our rebellion, and even through all that said, “I want them.” To show us how valuable we are to Him, He paid for us with His Son. So, on our spiritual resume now, the only thing that it says for those of us who follow Christ is, “Bought By Jesus’ Blood.”