A Single Sin Sacrifice - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

We all sin, we all fall short, we all need grace
grace boundless and unending, grace to redeem
to bring us back to our creator, to our God
from whom we are estranged, by the nature of man
the way we were wired, it would seem
Free will to make bad choices, century on century,
age on age we have, made the same bad choices,
breaking covenant after covenant with the most high
the One who has kept faith,
has honored each covenant made
The law required a sacrifice, the priest into the
holy of holies, behind the curtain, blood spilt for another year
another season of sin, of falling short as a person, as a people
as peoples of God, repenting for what we had done,
for what we would do again, an endless cycle of atonement
A new covenant, by the Word Made Flesh, a single offering,
the priest and lamb as one, offering himself, pure and white
blazing, brilliant, as on the Mountain, spilling his own offering
his own blood, for those would could not, redeeming all
with a single act of sacrifice, of atonement, of offering
Once and for all time, from the foundation to the end of the age
Until he returns in Glory, at the trumpet call
We wait still, eagerly, by faith

November 12, 2006 14:00
Hebrews 8-11:4