So the priest shall make

    atonement for him

    for his sin,

and he shall be forgiven.

             Leviticus 4. 26

("And he shall be forgiven"

is repeated nine times

in 32 verses of chapters 4 and 5.

Leviticus is not a book of

   regulations no way we can keep,

but a chronicle of forgiveness.

Not this is what is sin,

    but this is what to do with it.

God invented forgiveness,

      His deepest expression of love,

a scarlet thread of His grace

   that runs throughout the Bible.

Even to us.

Jesus paid it all.  All to Him I owe.

The gospel changes everything.)

O LORD,

We cannot know the height

            nor depths of Your love,

Your grace,

Your forgiveness

           for our own rebellion.

Your love is greater than we can see

               or even imagine,

far deeper than we can understand.

And still You hold out

      Your forgiveness to us,

already paid,

      already atoned for,

ready to cast away our sin,

ready to change our hearts

    and the trajectory of our lives.