Let us compare sin to the very earth on which we live in all its mass and grandeur, to the valleys low, mountains high and storms that rage within. Beyond all argument mortal men cannot overcome the earth. We might domesticate its tracts of land, tame its animals, or destroy its face, but it will never wear our leash, jump when we say jump, nor fetch what we throw.

It is bigger, stronger, and older than we. To triumph with the earth as your adversary, to triumph over its strength by your own strength, is hopeless. This, then, is sin, massive in scale and beyond all reckoning. Not one person nor the combination of many will overcome the earth, will overcome sin. That is how things stood — ’til Calvary.

To what shall we compare the sacrifice of Christ? To what shall we compare the grace of God? We shall compare it to the universe or the extended untold and uncharted galaxies. The sacrifice of Christ (without minimizing sin) dwarfs sin. Of course, we in proportion and power to sin, are still small indeed. But Christ, owing to WHO He is, coupled with WHAT He did, dwarfs sin. “The divine dignity of More >