I have found a ransom! – Thomas Brooks

“Deliver him from going down into the pit, for I have found a ransom!” Job 33:24

“I have found a ransom, or an atonement, a cover for man’s sin. Angels and men could never have found a ransom; but by My deep, infinite, and unsearchable wisdom,” says God the Father, “I have found a ransom! I have found out a way, a means for the redeeming of mankind, from going down to the infernal pit, namely the death and passion of My dearest Son!

But where, O blessed God, did you find a ransom?

Not in angels, not in men, not in legal sacrifices, not in gold or silver, not in the tears, humblings and meltings of My people; but in My own bosom. That Jesus, that Son of My love, who has lain in My bosom from all eternity He is that ransom, who by My own matchless wisdom and singular goodness, I have found. I have not called a council to inquire where to find a ransom, that fallen man might be preserved from falling into the fatal pit of destruction; but I have found a ransom in My own heart, My own bosom! Without advising or consulting with others, I have found out a way how to save sinners without injuring My honor, justice, holiness and truth!

Had all the angels in heaven, from the first day of their creation, to this very day, sat in serious council  to invent, contrive, or find out a way, a means, whereby lost man might be secured against the curse of the law, hell, condemnation, and wrath to come; and whereby he might have been made happy, and blessed forever; they could never have found out any way or means to have effected those great things.

Our redemption, by a ransom, is God’s own invention, and God’s only invention. The blessed ransom which the Lord has found out for poor sinners, is the blood of His own dearest Son a ransom which never entered into the thoughts or hearts of angels and men, until God had revealed it!