Good Friday: At Calvary

Here's today's in-touch devotion.

Today's scripture reading is Hebrews chapter 10, verses 10 through 14.

By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ

once for all.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices

which can never take away sins.

But He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.

For by one offering, He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

If asked what took place on Good Friday, many people could list the events that unfold at a

calvary. Christ was nailed to the cross. Roman soldiers gambled for His garments and darkness

covered the land. But far more was going on than the I could see. At the cross, sin was judged.

In the Garden of Eden, God warned that disobedience carried His severe penalty.

So from the start, His judgment of sin was prophesied, and later was also pictured in the sacrificial

system of the Old Testament. Under that system, each transgression required an animal's blood to

be sprinkled on the altar. The severity of the penalty, loss of life, was a graphic way for our

holy God to communicate how offensive and grievous sin is. It was a foreshadowing of the Lamb of God

who would come to pay for the sin of the world. On the cross, Jesus Christ was what a Lamb was on

the altar, but with a significant difference. Under the Old Covenant, every time sin was committed,

another animal had to die. Jesus, however, willingly offered Himself once for all to atone for the

sin of the whole world. If you haven't yet received this amazing free gift, won't you do so now?

And let's all thank our Savior for it.