Acts of God: Marked by Blessing

The center of everything worth seeing is Christ. He defeated and has locked up the one whose head he crushed, but whom we see so often in the temptations that surround us and rise within us. Christ is the one who unmasks that deception, and thereby brings us to confession. Christ is the one who not only redeemed us but has made us heirs of eternal life and holy priests before his Father. In him we are seen by God as offering up the sacrifice of lives cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. So where are you? May it not be with those bending before the dead images of pleasure, wealth, and power who are left behind with the locked up and defeated one! May it be with those who rise after confession and absolution to offer up sacrifices of thanksgiving with heart and mouth and life.