Hebrews 10:1-4
"The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming - not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." (NIV)
I am here to thank God for the better sacrifice, that has redeemed me from the taskmaster, whose name is sin, that once ruled over me. For it was not by the blood of bulls or goats that I have been redeemed, but by the precious Lamb who went to Calvary for us.
It was that crimson flow that was marked on the door posts of our hearts, cleansing us from a hopeless way of life; creating a way out of the grips of this world. When I look back to the exodus I see that it wasn't until the lamb was sacrificed, when the impossible became possible.
The possibility of ever being set free from this world was only a catching after the wind, until the Lamb came to be the way out of our slavery. But we were marked by his blood and the grip on taskmasters whip seemed to lighten up, and the sores on our backs began to fade away. Through the blood of Jesus Christ we were enabled to go to our Red Sea; the day our enemy was no more, and rejoicing we arose on the other side.
So I thank God today for all he has done, knowing by his sacrifice my sins are no more, but a confidence of drawing near to Him is now a reality.
Mike Creel
