…JESUS THE SON OF GOD…’ HEBREWS 4:14 NAS Our ‘go-between’
Hebrews 4:14-16 introduces us to a truth that can transform our prayer lives. It focuses on the person and work of Christ, our great High Priest who helps us in our prayers. ‘…we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God…’ Notice: Jesus is our ‘go-between.’ Dr Tony Evans writes: ‘The most important fact about our great High Priest is His identity: Jesus, the Son of God, indicating both His humanity as Jesus and His deity as God’s Son. He’s unique in both time and eternity because He is the God-man. As man He can feel the way we feel. And as God He can fix what makes us feel that way.’ When Job the patriarch was being accused by his friends and trying to defend himself, he said, ‘ “For [God] is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to court together. There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both” ’ (Job 9:32-33 NAS). Job was looking for somebody who could take God’s hand and identify with Him, then bring the two of them together. Job felt that God was beyond his reach. But we don’t have to feel that way! Why? Because Jesus bridged the gap between God and man. He can understand what we are going through when we cry out to Him, and He has the power to act on our behalf. Knowing that gives us the confidence we need to come to Him at any time, with anything that concerns us.