redemption

the tv show 24 on fox featuring one of the greatest characters created for tv, jack bauer (portrayed by keifer sutherland), is back on for a new season and i'm watching every minute i can of it cus when chuck norris wants to go to sleep feeling safe, his momma reads him jack bauer stories. but that is beside the point.
yesterday, i ran across a quote from one of the shows seasons in which jack bauer states "...part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for what you did wrong in the first place." and then i had a thought.
that's why Jesus came to save us. so we wouldn't have to bear all the weight of the responsibility for what we did wrong in the first place. "It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the Kingdom of His dearly-loved Son, in whom we have our redemption--the forgiveness of our sins." Colossians 1:13-14 (wnt)
Jesus is our redemption, our second chance. in life, when we get a second chance i.e. traffic cop giving one a warning instead of a ticket or a judge sentencing one to community service instead of 1-5 years in the cell; our second chance requires is to be responsible for what we did wrong in the first place.
when the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was discovered, sin was welcomed into all of our lives. "For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 (wnt) sin results in death. God loved the world so much that He choose to redeem us, to give us a second chance at life. He knew that if we were to take this second chance AND have to bear the weight and guilt of what we did wrong in the first place, we could not do it. thats why God gave His One and Only Son, so all that responsibility and guilt and shame would not fall on us, but on the shoulders of a dying, bleeding Christ who died and rose again to give us the greatest second chance of all- eternal life.