With Good Friday yesterday
and Easter tomorrow all I could focus upon was the altar of burnt offering. From
the very beginning God has been making a way for those He calls to find their
way to Him. In the OT, sacrifice after sacrifice was offered, for the priests,
for the people, for individuals… year after year and many times in between.
It seems a lot like what we
have to do to keep our bodies clean. We shower or bathe, again and again and
again. Soon after we become clean, we get dirty again by the world and our work
in the world.
Imagine a world where you
are clean forever. Well, being in Christ is kind of like that. Jesus died once
for all (see Romans 6:10 and 1Peter 3:18); no sacrifice for sin need ever be
made again. On the cross Jesus offered His perfect sinless life as a ransom, in
exchange for our sin-dirtied lives. And in that exchange, which is accomplished
when by faith a person puts his/her faith in Jesus, He pays the debt for our sin
once and for all, plus He gives, to us, the merits of His perfect sinless
life!
This is the wonder, the
Good News, of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Lavish in these thoughts
today as you await the celebration of Easter
tomorrow!!!
Alleluia!!!
Amen!!!
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