July 22 - Made Holy by Christ

July 22 - Hebrews 10:5-10 - Made Holy by Christ

In Psalm 40:6-8, the Psalmist tells us that God is weary of sacrifices and offerings made without passion. They were being made simply because the Law required it.

What is it that we do because it seems to be required of us? Do we donate to the church because we want to or because we should, do we attend worship on Sunday morning because we desire to be in the presence of God with other worshipers, or because it would look bad if we weren't there? Do we care for the poor, feed the hungry, reach out to others? Have we become like the Israelites in their surface attendance to the Law of the Lord or are we passionate New Testament followers of Jesus who live out lives that are offerings to God?

When Jesus came as the perfect sacrifice, there was something more than just an offering of His body. He came to do God's will.

Hebrews 10:9 says that Jesus set aside the first, to establish the second. The Levitical Sacrificial system was exchanged for Christ's obedience.

Christ's obedience enables us to be made holy, to be set apart, to be sanctified. This is what allows us access to the presence of God!

This verse offers us the promise of sanctification not because of anything we can do or anything we can achieve. There is nothing we can do to be made holy. Christ did it all on the cross.

By God's will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:10)

We have been made holy, let us live as if we know that!