Teeter-Totter

I have been working through the book of Hebrews recently. This is such a full book of the Bible, layered with Jewish context and thought, yet always directing us towards Christ. I have been struck with a thought while reading chapter 10.

Chapter 10 of Hebrews walks us through the being of Christ coming into the world in the context of Jewish practices to even out the sin of the people. The Jewish practice of sacrificing animals brought a great amount of time, effort and money for the people. Over and over again, whenever they fell, the had to "atone", even out, there sin by sacrificing something.

Verse 11 reads this...

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

The mundaness of this role would have been hard...duty filled they completed there task. I think back to my days of working in a warehouse, where I would repeat tasks over and over again...the mundaness of the job was hard for me, yet it was productive.

As I thought about how we make even our broken lives, so often we jump and push to do "good things", to get on God's good side. We strive to even everything out.

This is such a common ethic in our lives. It happens in relationships...and even our law system details this manner of practice. We pay a fine and everything is equaled out. Yet, this is not what Jesus is all about.

Jesus just changed the course of time. He just said "no", with a large voice, and evened everything out for us with the cross.

So, the next time that you catch yourself repeating a mundane task, whether it is cleaning the floors once again, or mowing that lawn, be reminded of how our spiritual lives are on a different path, one that is not about trying to balance a teeter-totter, but one where God has already done all the work.

Grace and Peace,

Micah