Jesus Has Stepped In...

Scripture:

1 Timothy 2:5-6 (ESV)

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

Devotional:

Each and everyone of us has sinned.  Romans 3:23 (ESV) “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”  Romans 6:23 (ESV) “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  So, we have all sinned.  The cost of that sin is death or eternal separation from God.  These two statements are just the way it is.  No getting around it.  There is no sugar coating it and getting out of it. 

Each and every person is in the same predicament.   None of us can atone for, absolve, forgive, or change the fact that we have sinned and deserve death.  But, despite the doom and gloom we face there is hope.  John 3:16 (ESV) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” 

Look at it like you would finances.  You owe a very large sum of money to the bank.  One example would be a mortgage.  You lose your source of income, no job, no means to pay your monthly mortgage.  What happens?  Eventually you get kicked out and the bank takes your home.  You are facing being homeless.  There are no options, no hope, no way you can possibly pay what you owe.  Someone steps in and goes to the bank.  They represent you and mediate with the bank.  They pay off your mortgage.  Now you have a home with no fear of losing it to the bank.  It isn’t because of what you can do or was able to do.  It was all because someone else stepped in and paid off your debt.

Jesus has stepped in and paid your debt.  Your wages to sin has been paid by Him so that you are free to be at home in heaven with God…

Spread the word… your debt has been paid…