All it Takes is One!

Many of you may be Hawkeye fans or something else but it was hard not to love the Cyclones last week. They not only had one feat of greatness but two last week. For the first time in 75 meetings the Iowa State Cyclones volleyball team beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Just two days later the football team beat the Huskers as well.

This feat got me thinking about the idea of one. All it takes is one sometimes.

All it takes is one smile, hug, or word of encouragment to make a bad day good.

All it takes is one interception to change the outcome of a game.

All it takes is one game versus the Tigers to send your team to the MLB playoffs.

All it takes is one extra hour of sleep this weekend to me excited.

There are so many all it takes is one.

This week in my Bible class I am teaching of the idea of One. In a different way.

I am teaching the Passover to my students in relation to the Lord’s Supper. We went to Hebrews chapter 10, which is entitled Christ’s sacrifice Once for all. In verse 10 it states, “ And by that will we have been made holy though the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ one for all.” We are made holy through one sacrifice. Also just before that in chapter 9 verse 28 it says, “ so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.” Hebrews 7: 27 says, “ unlike the other high priests, he does no need to offer sacrifices day after day first for his own sins then for the sins of the people. He sacrifieced for their sins once for all when he offered himself. We do not need daily or yearly animal sacrifices like that of the Passover. We have the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world.

All it takes is one atonement to save my life. When I was a young girl I was taught atonement to mean at-one-ment. To be “at one” means be at harmony in unity with something. The idea to be at one can achieve the state of at-oneness or reconciliation.

Jesus did not need 75 matches or 32 years to accomplish the feats the Cylones did last week.. It took him hours on a cross to cover seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, and decades worth of sins. All it took was one. All it takes is that one sacrifice for me to fall to my knees in depravity and humility. Out of that one event many years ago I daily take up my cross and follow him and sacrifice my life to Jesus.

All it takes is one. May we as followers of the One be reminded each day what an amazing and incredible feat that is.