Coming to Him
as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus
Christ. – 1 Peter 2.4-5
Nearly every religion in
society has a priesthood of some sort. Most of them have someone who stands
between the people and their sense of deity. Someone must represent their gods
to man and someone must intercede with them to their gods.
The Old Testament had a
priesthood accountable for all the nation’s interaction with God. The priests
interfered for the people. They made the sacrifices. They talked to God. The
people were reliant on the priests.
Even some church
organisations try to make people reliant on priesthood to intercede for them on
God’s behalf and to forgive their sins. These priests mediate on God’s behalf.
But here we are told that as
part of God’s family we are all part of the holy priesthood. We need no
mediator for we only need one, Jesus Christ. Every believer has equal access to
the throne room of God and we can pray with total assurance and confidence that
He will hear us. As a loving Father God welcomes us into His presence.
God is there for me anytime
I need Him. I can go directly to the Lord in prayer and He will hear me. It is
up to me to do my part in maintaining a proper relationship with God. I can’t
put that off on anyone else.
Thank God that there is no
need for a priesthood man up of fallible men. Thank God I can confidently
approach God because Jesus, my High Priest, has done the work of providing that
access.
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