May 2, 2023

The vexing gap between the person you are and the person that you wish you were will remain until you die. The doomed and gnawing project of self-justification is the repeated and always failed attempt to bridge the gap. The thing is – it just can’t be done. But, you will literally die trying.

Well, that’s not exactly right. It just can’t be done by you. However, it has already been done by Jesus Christ, who perfectly fulfilled the Law for your sake and imputed His righteousness securely and completely onto you. That would be the you that you are this very minute.

“Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so Christ could make us acceptable to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

“All glory be to thee, Almighty God, our heavenly Father, for that thou, of thy tender mercy, didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption; who made there, by his one oblation of himself once offered, a full,
perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious death and sacrifice, until his coming again.” (Holy Communion – BCP)