The cross wasn’t a backup plan. God knew the cost before He started.

Nothing about it was improvised. The cost was known at the start rather than discovered halfway through, which rules out the reading where it all went wrong and a rescue had to be arranged. That matters mostly for what it says about commitment: this was entered into with the price already understood. Being loved by somebody who knew the full bill in advance is a different experience from being loved by somebody who has not yet been charged.

Sit with that for a few minutes this week. Then consider what you have agreed to only while assuming it would be cheap.