Key Verse: "Wherefore he is able also
to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession for them."
- Hebrews 7:25 KJV
How sweet and consolatory to the believer is this view of
our exalted Immanuel in the hour of bereavement- when confined to his
chamber of solitude, or languishing upon his bed of "pining sickness"!
Too deeply absorbed in sorrow, it may be, to give utterance to his anguished spirit in prayer- his bodily frame so weakened by disease, and racked by pain, as to render the mind unfit for close and connected spiritual thought- oh, how sweet is then the intercession of Jesus, to know that, in the hour of the soul's extremity, when human sympathy and power are exhausted, "Jesus has entered into heaven, now to appear in the presence of God" for His suffering child!
And, when all utterance has failed on earth- and the heart
is broken- and the lips are sealed, then to look up and see our elder
Brother- the Brother born for our adversity- the exalted High Priest, waving
the golden censer before the throne, while the cloud of His atoning merit
goes up before the mercy-seat, bearing as it ascends the person, the name,
the circumstances, and the needs of the sufferer below. Precious gospel,
that opens to the eye of faith so sweet a prospect as this! When you cannot
think of Him, afflicted soul, He is thinking of you- when you cannot pray to
Him, He is praying for you, for "He ever lives to make intercession."
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