“How many are my iniquities and sins?” (Job 13:23)

Have you ever thought about the combined total of all the sins of God's people? You know your own sins, if piled up, would take a ladder to reach the top. But now, imagine if your sins were added to the sins of all the saints, past, present and future. It would be “a great multitude which no one could number” (Revelation 7:9).

We can also appreciate the size of the debt, by the greatness of the payment. The Son of God had to leave Heaven and be born as man, suffer and die as a wretched criminal!
“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:9-11).

God's Son! “The firstborn over all creation … All things were created through Him and for Him” (Colossians 1:15-16). He took the form of a servant, was scourged and pierced, bruised and torn, and at last slain; since nothing but His blood could pay the debt. As great as the mountain of sin, His atonement was greater.

So, when Satan accuses you of sin, stand before the throne of grace, and cry, “Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us” (Romans 8:33-34).