just once

Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But He has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

- Hebrews 9:26-28

 

In life we happen across many situations where we think to ourselves “I’ll never do that again”.

It could be trying a new food that was just terrible or going to an event that completely missed our expectations.

Sometimes we say that we will never do that again, but we do.

How quickly we as humans forget when our choices are not the wisest and we often end up making the same mistakes over and over again.

Sin is one of those things that manifests itself as something fun or exciting that will turn around to bite us, yet some of us repeat those sins often.

In the Old Testament, people would atone for their sins via sacrifice, an animal or crops.

Some people think that money will buy them a spot in Heaven.

I’m thankful that we no longer have to give burnt offerings because Christ came.

He who was without sin came to earth to live among us, to teach us and His purpose in coming here was to die for us.

Jesus sacrificed Himself, just once, and by doing so He wiped out our sin, the sin of many.

We have salvation, we have a way to Heaven, and we need to live like it.

He is coming back, but this time He is not going to die for us – He only did that once. 
As we wait for Him, we need to follow His example – the old saying “what would Jesus do”, while over used and cliché has a ring of truth to it.

Let’s live our lives as if He is coming back tomorrow and we want to go home with Him.  

 

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