Precious Lamb of God

The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.

John 1:35-37

Jesus was the Lamb of God, meant to come to this world as a willing sacrifice for all sin. John the Baptist knew this with confidence. And when the time came, John the Baptist gladly pointed his own followers to Jesus, encouraging them to enter into a life of following the Lamb of God. John’s entire life focus was to prepare people for the ministry of this saving Messiah and to see the Lamb of God found by His people. 

Just as these two disciples gave themselves to following the Lamb of God, so do Christians follow Jesus today. He is first our Savior. He is first and foremost the forgiver and the forgiveness of our awful sin. He is always our Redeemer. He is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world.

We are right now eight days from Christmas as I write this reflection. And even as I repulse from the overt commercialism and layers of secular tradition, I stop to marvel that the newborn cradled in a feeding trough was there because Lambs are born in stables. And as the Lamb of God, Jesus came to take away the sin of the world. 

“Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power

Till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.”