A Holy Week PSA You Can’t Miss: Did You Know The Cross Is Really About This? (PT 1)

Christ on the Cross is our korban. I’ve heard a myriad of reasons why Jesus had to go to the cross, but I stopped dead in my tracks, right there in the sheepfold, right there in the midst of feeding my wee flock of sheep. Why had I never realized the connection before? Or ever really heard this before?  I’m struck stock still with the epiphany of it all, because isn’t this what the Hebrew, Old Testament notion of korban, and the sacrifice of countless sheep — the sacrifice of everything — was always really about? Sacrifice, the korban, has always been about more than only punishment or payment; sacrifice has always ultimately been about presence.  All Lent, as I kept failing and falling, as I washed pots and pans, chop vegetables, folded clothes, kept getting up and beginning again, what kept striking me, was just this:  How I’d once stood at Shiloh, where all sacrifices for sins happened for 369 years, the burnt offering, the flour offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering. Sheep, goat, grain, bull, dove—­ all the Old Testament sacrifices of God’s people for all their heart wanderings, all their sins—happened right where I […]