Sept.26 “Why Jesus is So Important”

September 26, 2009

We deviate from our normal devotional schedule because I was mentally jogged and reminded of something I read this morning that I wanted to put out there.  We live in a world that is absolutely addicted to access.  We want in, pure and simple.  To the place, the website, the building.  We think that somehow we have a God-given right to universal access.  We think that health care ought to be ‘universally accessable’.  Really?  When 40,000 people a day die from lack of decent drinking water, it makes me wonder why we think that everyone deserves on the spot health care.  But, that’s not my point.

Spiritually, Jesus is called our ‘mediator’.  This is taken from the Old Testament where the High Priest Aaron would go into the Holy of Holies and with the names of the Israelites on his breastplate pray for them because only could, on that day of Atonement (see Ex.28:29).  Jesus is referred to as a mediator of a new covenant in Hebrews 5, and that is a picture of what He does for us.  What does that mean?  We can pray through Him, because of who He is and what He does; namely, interceding for us at the right hand of the Father.  We can praise God in Heaven because what Jesus did was the perfect act of worship – without the cross we could NEVER approach God, in word or praise.

So, today and everyday, when we do what we do, remember how, why and who for we do it.  Jesus.  He’s not just the destination.  He’s the journey.  He’s the pilot.  He’s the map.  He’s the reason.  We don’t do stuff for good reasons.  We live for Jesus because of what He did and does.

Thoughts?

coram deo – rob