Now We Do

September 23

From the beginning, only one sacrifice—blood—could cover the magnitude of the sin that stands between man and his Maker. In the Garden, it was the Creator Himself who slew the animal to make the covering for Adam and Eve. Their own flimsy attempt to conceal their sin from Him availed them nothing.

Cain’s rage over the rejection of his sacrifice of grain and his jealousy over God’s acceptance of Abel’s blood sacrifice led to the first murder. Man, whose neglect to surrender to the laws of the Lord, has swelled that statistic as he continues through the corridor of sin that he chose over God’s path of righteousness.

Yet even the best of sacrifices, a spotless lamb, repeated over and over through the decades and centuries that went by could not erase the scarlet stain of sin that left its dark blot upon the soul of mankind. From one Passover to another, a perfect lamb was slain, yet man was still covered in his sin.

Until, as we are told in Colossians 1:22, “He has reconciled you by His physical body, through His death, to present you holy, faultless and blameless before Him,” Jesus laid down His life as the pure, holy, sacrificial Lamb required to cleanse us of our sin—once and for all, the only perfect sacrifice--we had no covering, no redemption.

Now we do.