Matins Devotion: December 17, 2024

Revelation 5

Once the scroll was sealed shut. The book of salvation, the story of mankind finding peace with God, the story of God rescuing His people from condemnation–once that story was written but it was unable to come to fruition through the hands of sinful men. No man had hands worthy to open that scroll, no man was pure enough to be the one to win salvation for himself, let alone for anyone else. Your hands, covered in your iniquities, couldn’t break the seals, couldn’t release the blessings of God upon the earth. No one was worthy to open the scroll, no one born in the natural way, that is. 

But then God sent forth His Son, born of a virgin. The Son of God became flesh. He became man, and became a man free of sin, a man with a purely righteous heart, with purely righteous hands. Then your sinless Savior went to the cross. The Lamb who perfectly kept God’s law for you bled for you, died in you, and rose for you. He destroyed your sins. He conquered Satan, the author of sin. He won the victory over death. He won for you the right to live forever. And now with His pierced but living hands, He has opened the scroll. He has unfurled the story of salvation, the story that began with God loving you before the foundation of the world and the story that ends by never ending. Jesus Christ is worthy. The scroll is open. And the scroll declares that, because you have been washed and clothed in the worthiness of the Lamb, you are now worthy to dwell with your God in His kingdom forever.