Bold prayer

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. – Hebrews 4.14-16

Now, because of what Jesus did we have a whole new kind of prayer life. We don’t have to pray in fear and trepidation. 

Because we can rest assured that the God we are praying to understands where we are coming from we can come into His throne with boldness and assurance that He is going to understand where we are coming from. 

Even in human life it is so much easier to talk to someone who knows what we are going through. You don’t feel near as alone. Somebody else gets it we can share in that common experience. You good to have someone to nod their head and say ‘yeah, I know what you mean’

So when I pray I can almost imagine Jesus doing the same. He opened the door to then throne of grace. He said ‘come on in.’ He says ‘I get it. I understand. Go on.’ 

How blessed we are with that clarity and that boldness and that confidence

We can be honest with Him. 

He gets it.