Worthy is the Lamb – Nicely-Watered Girls
Pricey Sister,
Nearly each December, my unrealistic hopes and desires disintegrate sooner or later. My household will get hit by the flu, ravaged by a abdomen bug, or stricken by lingering head colds. My pleasure falters when a vacation custom doesn’t go as I deliberate. My self-confidence cracks after I uncover an e-mail buried in my inbox about shopping for a particular present for that evening’s Christmas get together. My face falls in disgrace after I notice I forgot a present for my baby’s beloved trainer. When my Christmas expectations run up towards the fact of life in a fallen world, my coronary heart is fast to covet the picture-perfect Christmas photos plastered throughout social media. After I set my hope in my skill to create the proper Christmas, the Creation season turns from great to worrying sooner than a batch of freshly baked Christmas cookies turns to leftover crumbs on the plate.
One 12 months, exhausted by this annual sample, I made a decision to place a notice to myself in one in all my Christmas storage bins as I used to be packing up decor to hopefully break the cycle the following 12 months. By way of tear-filled eyes and with a weary and worn-out coronary heart, I scratched reminders to my soul that Jesus got here to pay the worth for my sins—together with my dangerous perspective and my sinful self-confidence that rages towards resting in Christ and surrendering my plans to him. Fortunately, God doesn’t preserve a authorized pad of my sin and insufficiencies. When God appears at me, he sees the righteousness of his Son protecting me. Whereas each second within the season of Creation received’t really feel great, magical, or significant, Creation is usually a season of worship as we focus our hearts and minds on Christ, the Lamb of God, whose shed blood covers our shortcomings, short-sightedness, and brief tempers.
Over two thousand years in the past, upon seeing Jesus Christ, John the Baptist proclaimed, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). For 1000’s of years, Israelite clergymen had provided day by day animal sacrifices to atone for the sins of the folks, in line with the legislation God had given them. So embers from lambs’ flesh have been nonetheless burning within the temple when John spoke these prophetic phrases that burned to a crisp the folks’s expectations of the Messiah. Jesus wasn’t a warrior king coming to wield his sword towards the folks’s political enemies. He was the Lamb of God who would willingly lay down his life on the cross just like the animals that have been sacrificed within the temple day after day—his harmless blood spilled as the proper sacrifice to cowl our sins and cleanse us. John’s voice nonetheless echoes within the wilderness, calling us to stroll the straight paths of the Lord with our eyes fastened on Jesus, abandoning our delight, our useless makes an attempt to earn God’s love, and our previous sins and failures.
That is the excellent news we have a good time and soak our souls in throughout Creation. Once we behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the hearth of his Phrase burns away our unrealistic expectations, settles our money owed, restores our pleasure, and unchains us from the insurmountable burden of sin. So we worship the Lamb just like the angels do in Revelation 5:12, declaring, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to obtain energy and wealth and knowledge and would possibly and honor and glory and blessing!” This Creation season, allow us to worship the worthy Lamb of God!
Beholding the Lamb,
Gretchen
Founding father of Nicely-Watered Girls
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