Without Blemish

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats…. 

Exodus 12:5 

As God taught His people to begin their year with the lamb, He specified that not only was the lamb to be personal, but also that the lamb must be perfect.  To that end, He remarks in our text, ‘Your lamb shall be without blemish.’  What was to be, for the Israelites, the lamb who would deliver them from death by the shedding of his blood, must be perfect.  This lamb could have no deformity, defect, or disability in order to fulfill the God-satisfying requirement.  It is even so with Christ.  Christ is ‘the Lamb without blemish and without spot.’  He is the Lamb without deformity, defect, or disability.  It is for this reason, among others, that Christ is qualified to be ‘the Only Redeemer of God’s elect.’  No one else has this qualification in combination with all the others.  Not even the Father or the Spirit, have these qualifications as does Christ, the Lamb of God.  All of God’s intention is that we should fix our attention upon Christ, Who is the ‘Lamb…without blemish.’  As we meditate upon Christ today, let us fix our thoughts upon Him as the sinless, spotless Lamb of God, Who is perfect in every way, and therefore our Redeemer. 

 
O, sinless, spotless, Lamb of God, 
we rejoice that You are utterly perfect. 
We praise You that You occupy the place, 
that no one else can, to accomplish our redemption. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning