Last week we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus at Eastertime (what the world calls it), we heard about the Easter bunny, eggs, and chocolate. Those old secular traditions have nothing to do with Jesus’ gift of a new life for all who believe in him. But they can be distracting if we forget to focus on God’s amazing love shown to us through the death and rising of his Son, Jesus Christ.
When we look at Christs’ shed blood, it may make us uncomfortable. Perhaps we would rather focus on nicer, sweeter things like chocolate or some other treat. But the sacrifice of Christ is the only thing that could pay the debt for our sins and give us peace within. There is no redemption through chocolate eggs.
Today, may we be clear that our redemption did not come through chocolate, but from sin and death through the shed blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God. As we saw earlier this month in the Passover, when God delivered his people from slavery in Egypt, the sacrificed lamb of the Passover pointed ahead to the sacrifice of Jesus, God’s only Son. He became “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”. By his death we have life. By his shed blood we are set free and cleansed from all sin!
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! Romans 5:9.
Let’s Pray
Yahweh, forgive me for placing worldly, distracting things above your sacrifice. Father, you have freed me from my sin through the blood of Christ shed on the cross for my sake. Through His death, I can now enjoy full life in you – which is more enjoyable than chocolate. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
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