One of my favorite things about the internet is that there is a never ending supply of stuff.
Just stuff, in general.
This week I opened my computer with the intention looking up a recipe and I ended up watching youtube videos of Tina Fey.
Stuff.
OR I have an issue with staying focused.
Who knows.
But seriously, that stuff can end up being really good stuff. Take, for instance, all of the amazing resources we have to learn and grow in our knowledge of God and His Word.
One of my favorite websites for this specific purpose is SheReadsTruth. I love the reading plans they come up with and the commentary they have on each passage read together.
Currently, SheReadsTruth is going through an Advent reading. Today’s reading was on Jesus being the True & Better Passover Lamb.
If you have not heard/read the story of the Passover, I HIGHLY encourage you to read Exodus 12 and get yourself familiar.
The first passover occurred when God commanded His people in Egypt to sacrifice a lamb, spread it’s blood over their doors, and God passed over them, sparing them from death in their household.
Jesus is the True & Better Passover Lamb because His blood has made the final, once and for all, atonement for our sins. We are seen as righteous because of Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf.
Blows. My. Mind. Every time.
In reading through the devotional material on SheReadsTruth, I came to this:
More often than not, I live under the weight of my own sin, as if Christ’s sacrifice isn’t enough to cover my own transgressions. I look around frantically for solutions to fix what I have broken, but overcorrecting only leads me to legalism – the opposite of freedom in Christ.
“Overcorrecting only leads me to legalism…”
Man. Yep. Ditto, sister.
Jesus is True and Better and Final and Forever. I can do no more and no less to earn His love or His redemption. It simply is.
I fail. I sin. I rebel against an Almighty God.
But I cannot dig myself out of that. I cannot correct my own ways. And trying to only leads to self-reliance and a belief that Jesus isn’t good enough. That somehow, His blood shed upon a cross just won’t cut it for me.
I may say I believe with my mouth, but my actions are speaking something totally different.
I want the freedom only Christ provides. Because I know it is there that I am truly able to rest in true satisfaction and live with deep peace and joy that can never be shaken.
That is my prayer for us – that we would know Jesus is True & Better.
*see Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy explain Passover before you go read about it
Kayla Smith 