Ezekiel 43:22-23 “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull. When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect”

Do you recognize a familiar theme sewn throughout these verses? Whatever the sacrifice, the requirement was the same. It had to be offered “without defect.”

This requirement was demanded by God with good reason. The sacrifice was to be a “type” or a “picture” of the perfect sacrifice that would come as the atonement for the sin of all people.

In the fullness of time God would reveal His only begotten Son to the world. Jesus was the only perfect sacrifice that could be offered on behalf of humanity, to restore us to a Holy God.

Today, it is because of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice, the pouring out of His own innocent blood, that we have access to God through faith in Jesus’ work on the cross.

Because of that access you can go boldly to the Throne of Grace without fear of rejection. Thanks to Jesus we who have faults can go to a God with none.

Thought for Today: God loved me so much that He gave, a sacrifice without defect, His Son Jesus.