As I reflect on Resurrection Day 2025, I feel so thankful that we have been forgiven. The Bible states in Romans 8:1, “[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.” Christ took all our brokenness, all our sins, all our shame, and gave is freedom, forgiveness, and the knowledge that our Father loves us, no matter what mistakes we have made, and even what evil we have done. No matter how evil man can be, and we all know that we have the ability to be very evil, when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, and understand the power of His sacrifice on the cross at Calvary, we are made new, and we are forgiven.
Before we were saved, we were lost in our sin and condemned to Hell. There was no hope because the wages of sin is death, and God could not compromise that. If he had made even one exception our world would have imploded. The world was created on the goodness, holiness, and perfectness of God. To say it was ok for one person to sin and no payment to be made for atonement, would have completely compromised the very power of God that was holding our world together. So, God had to come up with a plan that could fix broken man 
without compromising His goodness and perfectness. He needed a man who had not sinned to pay for all those who did, even though He was innocent of any wrongdoing.
It would take a long time to find a man on the earth who was willing to partner with God to bring this to pass, because God was now outside of His creation looking in. God had given man the authority over this earth, knowing that it was very possible, and even probable that man would sin and mess the whole thing up. Why would God do that? It was because God didn’t want a world full of robots. He wanted a family…sons, daughters, grandkids. Truly, God is a dad, and as a dad, He knows that His kids aren’t perfect. Nevertheless, He loves each and every one of us…so much so, that He was willing to ask His son, Jesus to accept that horrific task of giving up His Godly powers and His Heavenly home to come to Earth, live a sinless life, and then be sacrificed and horribly punished anyway. Jesus was innocent, but God had to punish Him as if he had committed every single sin ever committed. The wages of sin is death, and payment had to be made, but for all of us to go free, the payment had to be made by a sinless man. There was no such sinless man, except Jesus. He was fully God and fully man, and the horrific sacrifice he made was enough. The cross was enough to redeem all mankind, and all 
we had to do was to receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Jesus was enough, the price was paid, and we are finally free to have eternal life again. Lord, thank you for the atonement for my sins that you have freely given. Now I am a new creation. I have been redeemed from the curse of the law. I am no longer condemned, but an heir to the throne. I receive your salvation Lord, in Jesus’ name. Amen!!
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