Our memory verse this
week speaks to the truth that human beings require a mediator between God and
ourselves, a go between who gives us access, standing, and freedom of
relationship with our Creator and ourselves. Only one exists, and we require only
one.
“For there is one God, and
one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (I Timothy 2:5).
The God who is man and
the man who is God unite the Divine and human, first in Himself, and then in all
united to Him by faith. The Lord
Jesus first brings God to us by making justification possible without violating
our Heavenly Father’s holiness (Romans 3:26). Then, our Savior brings us to God by
filling our hearts with the confident assurance that we are “accepted in the
Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6). Christ
satisfies the requirements of God and meets the need of man in bringing parties
together where it might seem that “never the twain shall meet.” We more than meet, however, as the Holy
Spirit births all who trust the Lord Jesus into family relationship with our
Father in Heaven.
All who approach God with a
humble heart that trusts in Christ alone will find Him available and desirous of
close relationship. Seeking the
Lord by other ways, however, will crash upon the rocks of falsehood and unbelief
as wayward supplicants seek Heavenly approach by earthly means.
“It is better to
trust in the LORD than to
put confidence in man” (Psalm 118:8).
The person and work of
the Lord Jesus long ago paved a pathway to God. “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He
hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; and having
an High Priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith” (Hebrews 10:19-22).
So long as we come through Christ and Christ alone, we may always “enter
into the holiest.” No other way
exists for either faithful saint or wicked sinner. Moreover, no other way is necessary.
“I am the way and the truth
and the life. No man cometh unto
the Father, but by Me.”
(John 14:6).
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