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The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Immeasurable

"Lebanon does not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering." Is 40.16
"Such is the divine majesty that only a sacrifice so great as to be immeasurable would be commensurate with it." The Old Testament Library, Watermann, 1957, p 51

"For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings." Hos 6.6

The only sacrifice that could ever be immeasurable would be Christ---God Himself. Nothing can possibly reach the level of honor and glory and respect in a sacrifice without it's being Him. The amount of effort that was done for sacrificial law was incredible--the perfection of the animals, the perfection of the mood of giving the sacrifice (as Christ says of leaving tithes and remembering the crossness you have of a brother), the perfection that the priests were to go through. 
But! Those sacrifices had to be repeated and repeated and repeated. The depth of the sacrifice was not enough to be an immeasurable sacrifice covering the great and demanding level of our constant insults toward the Lord of All. 
Our sins pour off of us in unimaginable waves. Yet with the blood of God Himself, an immeasurable measure of sacrificial blood, His sin-covering goes on beyond the tidal waves of Sin. 

To this end, all we must do is say that God is indeed God. That we are not God, that we cannot in any way save ourselves from the price of Sin. Sacrifice has been done and completed. We must honor God with the truth that He is God, the Lord of All and Creator. That is the best honor we can give God for His immeasurable death--to remember Him. 

Christ said when He was at the Last Supper to "do this in remembrance of Me". What is it we humans want most of others? To be remembered. To be loved. How much more, then must a Father who loves us enough to die such a death want to be Remembered? How much more, then, must He deserve to be Remembered?

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