Practice makes perfect.
We’ve heard that, and we see the truth in it.
Bake enough cakes, and you’re bound to eventually make a good one.
Sit through a dozen job interviews, and you soon learn what to say and when to keep quiet.
A teacher gets higher pay ten years in than when starting. Why? Ten years of practice, of starting over each August, and finally getting it right.
The Law in the Bible was practice step number one.
The Israelites and the priests were trying to figure out this redemption thing. Sacrifices. Offerings. Burning this, reading that, praying the same prayers day after day.
Finally, God said practice time was over. Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years in. It was time to get it right.
And Jesus stepped up to the cross and said, “Not my will, but thine be done.”
Ah, perfection! Read about it in Hebrews 10:14:
“For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.”
The offerings and sacrifices in the Temple were temporary respites from the curse of sin.
The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross wiped away sin. When we choose to follow Jesus, Hebrews 10:17 says:
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
No more cakes to bake.
No more job interviews.
Our pay jumps to the highest level: eternal life with Jesus our Lord.
When we choose salvation, we’re finally getting it right. That’s a reward we can all enjoy.
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