So often the impression is given that our relationship with God is mainly about all the ways in which we need to change and that salvation is dependent upon self-improvement. Thankfully, God has provided a substitute for self-improvement. Rather than change, he offers an exchange: our sin, guilt, and death for his holiness, innocence, and life. This week, we marvel at the love it takes for a Father to offer up his son as a sacrifice. Given the choice between sparing us and sparing his Son, God chose to spare us by offering Christ as our substitute. If he was willing to do that for us, what could possibly separate us from his love?