God did the unthinkable in sacrificing his Son. In our limited human understanding, we cannot wrap our minds around that sort of love, that sort of sacrifice. Do you wonder, can this one death be enough to cover darkness in my heart, much less the magnitude of human depravity through all of history? When the blood of innumerable goats and bulls and lambs had not been able to accomplish it? 

What is enough?

Hear the God of Moses, the Lord of all creation say: I AM.

For Jesus who was from the beginning comes to the suffering of the cross as the fullness of God, embodied in all the reality of human flesh. He says, “I and the Father are one.” He is, indeed, enough.

Hear the testimony of Christ’s sufficiency from Colossians and from Hebrews:

Colossians 1:15-22

15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. 21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

Hebrews 9:12-14

12 Jesus did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

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