For 2021...

"Christ came to give Himself for us – for our sins – and it is that alone which cracks and crumbles the folly of the towering mansions built to house the rule of self-devised religion!

Our works or merits, ceremonies or contrition’s cannot budge the stubborn and perilous root of sin. What worth would there be in the death of Christ if they could?

It is because we are careless and so often make light of our sin or make so much of our own piety that we miss the true weight of what Paul has said here.

Sin is our only master, for we hold no power in us against it. So another must release us. We must arm ourselves with this single edict – sinner I am, but Christ has given Himself for my sin. That one truth is our deed of liberty. It alone raises us from our death to a life that comes from God". 

Martin Luther on Galatians 1.