I have been reading a 40 day Lent devotional called “From the Grave” by A.W. Tozer. “From the Grave” is a collection of forty daily readings from Tozer’s sermons and published books.
The reading for today is entitled, “The Passion of Christ”, passion meaning deep, terrible suffering. I wanted to share an excerpt from it.
“And so that Holy One suffered and His suffering in His own blood for us was three things. It was infinite, almighty, and perfect.
Infinite means without bound and without limit, shoreless, bottomless, topless forever and ever, without any possible measure or limitation. And so the suffering of Jesus and the atonement He made on that cross under that darkening sky was infinite in its power.
It was not only infinite, but almighty. It’s possible for good men to “almost” do something or to “almost” be something. That is the fix people get in because they are people. But Almighty God is never “almost” anything. God is always exactly what He is. He is the Almighty One. And when God the Almighty died, all the power there is was in that atonement. You can never exaggerate the power of the cross.
And God is not only infinite and almighty but perfect. The atonement in Jesus Christ’s blood is perfect, there isn’t anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect. That holy suffering there on the cross and that resurrection from the dead cancels our sins and abrogates our sentence”.
Thank you, Jesus.
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