Sunday, April 19

Shielded by Jesus Christ

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness; it shows itself in retributive justice. But Jesus Christ has shielded us from the nightmare of retributive justice by becoming our representative substitute, in obedience to His Father’s will, and receiving the wages of our sin in our place.

— J. I. Packer
In My Place Condemned He Stood
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), 40-41