Our Triumphant Christ

eDevotion

Encouragement for your daily walk with God

Today starts the seventh day of the government shutdown. My eDevotion is not about politics, but this event is another illustration of the dysfunctional and broken world that we live in. And it’s not just the government, the evidence of it is everywhere; weeds grow in beautiful gardens, secularism and the rejection of godly morality is the norm of the day, and what about the explosion of selfishness! Everywhere we turn we witness the result of the Fall—the result of sin!

Is there a solution for our dysfunction—our fallenness? Absolutely! Andrew Peterson wrote about it in his song, Behold the Lamb of God. Here are the powerful words:

When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end of all my sin.
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free.
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me.

And that is just the beginning. It points to the cross upon which Jesus paid the price for sin. But there is so much more! The third verse provides the ultimate victory:

Behold Him there the risen Lamb,
My perfect spotless righteousness,
The great unchangeable I AM,
The King of glory and of grace,
One in Himself I cannot die.
My soul is purchased by His blood,
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ my Savior and my God!

The solution we need is the triumphant Christ! He will one day set everything straight. I’m good with that, how about you?

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. John 16:33