Evening: Psalms 48, 87; I John 3:1-8
They presented the infant Jesus in the Temple as a sign that the old Temple system - buying forgiveness through animal sacrifices - was over. People so frequently hurt themselves, others and the creation that, under that system, they needed to keep returning with new sacrifices! Jesus - as Christians understand his work - sacrifices his life to show that God does not need to be appeased by repeated sacrifices. The Love of Jesus’s self-sacrifice is the true and lasting source of our freedom. And self-sacrificing love will from now on always mark the path to human freedom.
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