The Once and For ALL Sacrifice

"For I know my transgressions an my sin is always before me." Psalm 51:3

This morning I was reading Hebrews 10. I love this chapter because it talks about how Christ came as the perfect sacrifice once and for all! We no longer have to offer the blood of a goat or a lamb for our sins every year for the blood of Christ was our perfect sacrifice once and for all! Why is this important to me you ask? Consider this: We have a Creator who created the whole universe and put us in it. He made us in His image and likeness. When He made us He gave us the free will to either accept Him or reject Him for that is True Love. Now when we rejected Him we could no longer exist in fellowship with the Holy of Holies, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, sin and holiness cannot exist together, we were cursed... cursed to die. We will die not only a physical death but a spiritual death as well. Enter the love of the Creator, He knew the cost of our sin and knew it would take a sacrifice once and for all. The blood of Jesus Christ, our Creator, the Son of the God Head had to be shed to take away our sins "because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy" (Hebrews 10:14). Through the blood of Jesus Christ "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." (Hebrews 10:17)

So then what? Christ calls us to live in Holiness, to be Holy because He is Holy (1 Peter 1:16). There is also a curse in the blessing of Christ: "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God." (Hebrews 10:26-27)

Christ came and made the sacrifice once and for all. If we would only be pierced through our hearts and seek Him out, He has made himself known to us, He loves His creation... will we reciprocate that love?