Who has believed our messageIt is the end of day two of my fast. I am thinking about the last week my Lord spent on this earth. He went through a lot just in order to bring me back to God.
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
That is, after all, why he came. God is so good that we cannot touch him. We are, after all, human and essentially evil. Jesus can touch God. He is pure.
But because he was human, he can touch us. He knows our problems.
Hebrews 4 says So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God.
He was like we are, yet he did not sin. That means that he went through the same problems we do, but didn’t succumb to them.
Because of that, he is perfect. So he can touch God, who is also perfect. And he can touch us, who are human.
He can bring us into the throne room of God.
That was why he came. He didn’t come to teach us a better way, or to give us wise old sayings. He came to bring us back to God.
He was the perfect sacrifice. He died even though he had not sinned and then put death under his feet.
He gives us the ability, vicariously, to die without sin and to put death under our feet through his sacrifice.
Father God, I thank you for Jesus and for his perfect sacrifice and for his bringing us back to you. I praise you. Amen.
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