Hi, I'm Mike Whitmer.

Today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread is entitled, Jesus Restores Us.

Although Sam had done nothing wrong, he lost his job on the assembly line.

Carelessness in another division led to problems in cars they built. After several crashes made the news, wary customers

stopped buying their brand. The company had to downsize, leaving Sam out of work. He's collateral damage.

And it isn't fair.

It never is.

History's first collateral damage occurred immediately after the first sin.

Adam and Eve were ashamed of their nakedness,

so God graciously clothed them with garments of skin.

It's painful to imagine, but one or more animals that had always been safe in the garden,

were now slaughtered and skinned.

There was more to come.

God told Israel in Ezekiel chapter 46, every day you are to provide a year old lamb without defect for a burnt

offering to the Lord. Morning by morning you shall provide it. Every single day. How many thousands of

animals have been sacrificed because of human sin?

Their death was necessary to cover our sin until Jesus, the Lamb of God, came to remove it.

Call this collateral repair.

As Adam's sin kills us, so the last Adam's, Christ's obedience, restores all who believe in him. Collateral repair

isn't fair. It costs Jesus' life, but it's free. Reach out to Jesus in belief and receive the

salvation he offers, and his righteous life will count for you.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Genesis

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