Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole. … When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing.  Galatians 3:13

Yeshua was born with a purpose that defied understanding.  He wasn’t born to be a teacher, or to tell stories about God, or to perform miracles, or to be king of Israel.  He was born to reverse the curse that was pronounced in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve failed to believe God about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Turning their deaf ear to God’s boundaries, and then sealing it with an act of disobedience, ushered in immense consequences for them and every one of their descendants.  Is it any wonder that Jesus would grow up to say, “Whoever believes in me, though He dies, yet shall He live.”  

The sin of unbelief was committed in a garden.  Thirty-three years after little Yeshua was born, He would enter another garden to deal with the weight of our curse and to give up His life to reverse it.  Unbelief brought the curse.  Belief in Jesus lifted it. 

Every one of us who has embraced this Savior and believed in Him is no longer cursed ~ but blessed.  The theme of our life is not ‘paradise lost’ but ‘paradise restored.’  Barren landscapes, once brown and decayed by sin, are now lush and green.  Futility and hopelessness were instantly banished with this pronouncement, “It is finished.”  

You rescued me from eternal darkness and alienation from You. You are my Yeshua.  Amen