A devotional reflection from my Bible reading today using the “Necessary Food” Bible reading plan: 2 Kings 15:1-38; Proverbs 20:21-30; Amos 8:1-14; John 18:12-27; Hebrews 9:23-28.
NOT MANY THINGS ARE “ONCE-FOR-ALL”!! Most things require maintenance, oversight, care, and repairs. I rarely go to bed hungry…after that evening snack I feel like I could “fast forever”… but come morning I’m ready for some “break-fast!” I think of our lawn (by week’s end it’ll need mowing). Our cars (It’ll be time for an oil change just around the corner). Students would tell us those assignments seem never-ending! After a good night’s sleep I don’t feel like getting up and exercising … but if I don’t the results aren’t positive… The list could go on. All that to say, NOT MANY THINGS ARE “ONCE-FOR-ALL”
When something is “once-for-all” it is decisive, conclusive, final, convincing, definitive, finished, done, completed … or as my dad used to say, “that settles it, period!”
This morning I read about a “ONCE FOR ALL” in the Bible that ought to cause us to rejoice!! The book of Hebrews tells us…
“For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven. He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf. And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the high priests here on earth who enter the Most Holy Place year after year with the blood of an animal. If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But now, ONCE FOR ALL TIME, he has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice. And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, so also CHRIST DIED ONCE FOR ALL TIME as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.” (Hebrews 9:24-28 NLT)
My response? Praise the Lord! I’m depending on it!
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