--Have you ever read about sacrifice in the Old Testament and wondered what it was for? The only payment for sin is death (Romans 6:23), and the Lord graciously allowed animals to be offered as a substitute for human lives. So people regularly brought sacrifices to God as atonement. However, it was only a 'temporary' solution and had to be repeated often.
In order for mankind to be eternally freed from the guilt of sin, God required that the one-for-all sacrifice had to be completely pure (Leviticus 22:20). What's more, it could not be an animal. After all, the guilt belonged to man; therefore, the world was in need of a perfect and sinless person to be offered.
What an impossible situation: Man was responsible to pay the price, but God alone was capable of sinlessness. The only possible solution was for Jesus Christ--who was wholly God and wholly Man--to offer His life on our behalf. Unlike the one-time payment for all sin. Jesus never sinned.
**This is why we say that we're saved by the blood of Christ. Jesus did what we could not--He set us free from our sins. Consider the immensity of the sacrifice He made on your behalf. Have you thanked Him today?
"For in Him we live and move and exist [have our being]" // [Acts 17:28]
