Contemplative Bible Reading

Hebrews 9:12 (New Living Translation)

With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.

Hebrews 10:4 (New Living Translation)

For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

The two verses from Hebrews highlight the degree of “badness” in my life. I am so bad that the blood of goats and calves is insufficient to make me right in the sight of God. I am so bad that God had to come to this earth himself and die himself to make me right in His sight.

That is pretty darn bad, that is my state of depravity, and the is the unfathomable grace of God.

All praise to God, the author of our salvation.