"To minimise the vicarious sacrificial nature of the death of Christ, the high noon on Calvary when Christ faced God's irreducible law, is to miss the unifying drama of the bible... the pinnacle of the scripture's story of the law involves a personal substitute by which the extreme accusation of that law against the human race is absorbed in its absolute and total character into an innocent man.
Why did Christ die? He died to atone for the sins of the whole world".
Paul Zahl - Grace in Theology.
Lasting grace is an act so rich and deep, so enduring, it will forever change the one who bathes in its beauty. We are so bathed in the waters of baptism when, naked of all but our desperate need, God buries into the atoning death of His beloved, and raises us with Him, dressed in the glory of His righteousness and everlasting life.
This is why the cross is our focal-point.
Here, we become sustained by His precious body and redeeming blood.
Here, we witness the 'grain and grape' of this present creation changed and transformed, as we participate in a life from His transforming wounds which marries us to the new creation - the coming dawn of eternal joy.
A Happy Easter.
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