Saturday 25 Aug 2012

Saturday Reading: Hebrews 7:22-25

Key Verse: Hebrews 7:25
25  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Devotion:
There are times when we question whether we are good enough for others or whether they are good enough for us. There are times when we wonder how men can go to war to fight for others, on their behalf. There are times when we question whether the life of one is good enough for the life of another. And then there are times when we wonder how someone could ever give their lives for us.

When we study the life that our Lord Jesus lived on this earth we find that He was so very different from anyone who had come before. If it was just to take the fact that He lived such a decent life we should never even think that He could ever give His life for us. But then we find out that He was no ordinary man; He is the Son of God and in Him there is no evil or darkness. So then we should not even harbour the thought that He should in any way give His life for us – and yet that is exactly what He did.

Some will say that He was merely a prophet, others that He was a priest, but those titles are far too evil for our Awesome God! Prophets and priests still do get things wrong and they make mistakes. God does not and never will. It was certainly no mistake that He should choose to give up His own life for us! It was no half-hearted gesture but a complete and utter sacrifice for us that came from His heart! He chose it to be so. He willingly took our place on the cross so that we would not have to pay that ultimate price for the sins that we do. What love!

But then it does not stop there because He does not die every day to cover our sins one by one; He does not come back over and over to pay for them again and again because Christ’s perfect life was the perfect sacrifice for us once and for all. That one perfect Lamb was able to pay for every sin in this world, past present and future. It was no mistake that He should have to suffer and die such a terrible death on our behalf – how else could He pay for the sins that we have done? And not only was it a once and for all payment but that payment also separates us totally from our sins and allows us to once again commune with God!

Points to Ponder:
Would you allow someone to die so you can live?

Have you accepted what Christ has done for you?