Redemption

Redemption. There is something about redeeming yourself after something goes wrong that is extremely satisfying. Watching the game last night exemplified the thought of redemption. The team that won the championship last night was the same team that suffered a tremendous and humiliating loss last year that had never happened before. They were the punchline to many jokes for the past year and last night they were able to redeem themselves.

Thinking about the idea of redemption got me to wondering how many people think that they have the power and the ability to redeem themselves spiritually. The answer is that no one has the power or the ability to redeem themselves. Redemption has to come from another source. A source that is like us but different from us.

Jesus was born in the likeness of men so that He could redeem man. Up until His coming, sins were covered by the blood of goats and lambs. That was only a temporary fix until the true Redeemer came in the form of Christ. His sacrifice on the Cross with His blood didn’t just cover the sins of man, it removed the punishment for the sins of man. There is a big difference from having them covered (still there) to having them removed.

“He (Jesus Christ) entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”- Hebrews 9:12-14.

Redemption is a word that is thrown around lightly in today’s day and age, but spiritually speaking, it should be a word that has profound meaning to the believer. It’s a word that means we have been taken out of the humiliation we were once sentenced to face, and instead, placed in heavenly places with our Savior. Have you been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb?

Have a great day and God bless.