devotions and reflections

I have had a great time studying this week’s lesson. Perhaps the most wonderful story ever told is the Redemption story.  But I’m just thinking that I can never really appreciate or even grasp the idea of being atoned unless I experience it in a real-life situation. But to illustrate it I’d like to make up a situation. I was in a no-jaywalking road but since there were no cars passing by and no police on sight I crossed to the other side. Up popped the policeman and I was asked to pay penalty and to work for 3 hours cleaning the council house. But out of nowhere a good samaratin, a savior came to my rescue and told the policeman that he would pay for my penalty and do the H work for me. He was gonna do it because he was my friend. I haven’t done anything to deserve such treatment from him but he wants to do it anyway. No, he is not going to bail me out in monetary terms. Instead he was going to get the punishment and let me go free as if I had done nothing wrong. Such a beautiful feeling, isn’t it?

Our story of redemption is even better than this. We are bound to perish because of our sinfulness and that’s it. When we die, it’s the end of everything. But no, such is not going to be the case. Because even before it happens God had already planned for a redemption. And it was not a dignified type of redemption. In fact it was the most humiliating one. For our sacrifice had to die a shameful death, stripped of his robe. Can we even dare to look at him? No. But he did it for us. Such was the price Jesus paid to atone us from our deadly sinfulness.

Thank you Jesus for all these things you have done for us.