An original is worth more than a duplicate or a substitute.
Take for example a painting by a famous a famous artist. Today there are countless ways for the original to be copied. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between the two.
Another example is a book. The first and rare edition is worth more than a much later edition of the very same book.
There are many examples we can point toward, but the best is our Savior. For two centuries people have been coming up to some kind of substitute, hundreds if not thousands of them.
But Jesus is the original. He is the sent one and sent for our good, our salvation. No one can take His place for several reasons.
Acts 4:12 NLT
There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”
John 14:6 NLT
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
John 17:3 NLT
And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
Don’t try to copy salvation or try it some other way.
In fact, another aspect of this reality is how we try to be someone we are not. Be you. Be who God made you to be.
May we lift up the original because nothing else comes even close.
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