Some friends and I were hiking up a trail beside the river that runs near our home. Lying among the stones and pebbles, we found a lot of old Indian arrowheads made out of flint. The stones and pebbles around them had been worn smooth and round by weather and water, but the flint arrowheads were just as sharp and jagged as when they were made. That’s because flint is hard, dark quartz.
They made me think of our Lord Jesus who is the same yesterday, today and forever. His love never changes, and His holiness never changes. He will never allow one sin to pass unnoticed or unpunished. But His love for you and me took Him to the cross to bear our sins in His own body. He did not change His mind even though He knew that the people in Jerusalem hated Him and would nail Him to a cross to die. He said, “I set My face as a flint” (Isaiah 50:7) to go to Jerusalem. He also knew God had a wonderful purpose in it all for you and me: “God . . . made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:20-21). That wonderful purpose was that you and I could be saved from the punishment we deserve for our sins.
Do you believe that He died for your sins?
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