The weight
1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness–by whose stripes you were healed.
All the evidence of God’s glory lies before you every day. All the magnitude of His creation, un-explicable majesty of a supreme designer of all the universe is open to your eyes. 2000 years ago today, the opposing weight equal to that glory in the weight of our sins, bore down on that Creator. All the sins of the past, present, and future of the race He created, he now bore on a perfect body. He had come to provide the only possible Holy sacrifice to provide access to a Holy God. It was the only way to atone for our failure; the only way we would not pay for our failure apart from God. He created us like Himself; Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”; He had created us for fellowship, and we had failed miserably. There was only One who could pay our sin debt and allow us regain access to eternal paradise with Him.
Look back at your life of sin in your years. The weight of your sin, both the evident and the unknown, and try to imagine how you could pay your sin debt to stand before a Holy God. All other religions teach the work you must do to gain access to God. If you honestly reflect on where your sin debt is today, could you from this day on repay that debt in holy service if you could even sin no more? Is there an level of service that outweighs the level of repentance? Christ had pointed to the Pharisee’s who considered themselves the righteous and holy of their day. He had pointed to their religiosity and the failure that lied in their ritualistic approach to God; their service to God to atone for their sin. Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Going through the motions of religion and church attendance with it’s rituals will only give you a first class ticket to hell. You are never saved by religion; you are only saved in humble repentance and acceptance of the understanding that you can only obtain it in Christ’s sacrifice.
I can come up with no adjectives to describe the weight of my sin. I lived a life steep in sin, the unknown is greater than the known; I fail my Lord still every single day. Even in my greatest sin of pride I understand that I could never pay my sin debt to God. That would make the sacrifice of Christ useless. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. You have only one pathway to paradise, and it began today at Calvary. The pride in your heart steep in religion must be covered with the blood at the Cross. Your salvation began 2000 years ago and it is available to a humble repentant heart that kneels and pleas for forgiveness and acceptance. Thank you Jesus.
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