What kind of offering do we bring to our Lord? The offering we are to bring to the Lord is a perfect unblemished offering, something precious and perfect. What can it be, though? We have nothing which is unblemished. All that is undefiled has fled from this world with the entrance of sin. And our Lord needs and wants nothing. There is nothing at all we can offer him.
We read today God's call to repentance through his prophets, Malachi and John the Baptizer. What is pleasing to God? Nothing of ours. But one man, the man Jesus Christ, is pleasing to God. He is the one who came, undefiled, to offer himself as a perfect offering to the heavenly Father. He is the one who is beloved. And he is the one who has called a people to himself, baptizing them into his name, promising his presence with them, bringing them to eternal life. This is what is good and pleasing to our Lord.
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