Friday 16th March
Hébreux 7:11-28
We crave for
order – in our life, in our human relationships, in our relationship with God.
We seek it in rules and rituals, symbols and sacrifice, priesthood and Temple.
Can these assure us of God’s presence? Can they give us access to God?
This
order, the author of the letter to the Hebrews tells us, is “now set aside
because it was weak and useless”. Instead, through Christ a “better hope is
introduced, by which we draw near to God”. Jesus told the Samaritan woman at
Jacob’s well that the time has come, “when the true worshippers will worship
the father in spirit and truth” (John 4.23). The true worshippers find God’s
presence not tied to the old order of rules, sacrifice and Temple but in his
living and life-giving spirit.
“The
wind blows wherever it pleases”. God’s spirit cannot be boxed into our “weak
and useless order”. Through his spirit, God is present - on his terms, not
ours. That is the better hope, the new order, the superior covenant. (Heb.
7.19; 8.6; 9.10).
“Le vent souffle là où il veut”. L’Esprit de Dieu ne peut pas être
limité par notre ‘organisation faible et inutile’. A travers son Esprit Dieu se
montre présent – avec Ses conditions à Lui, pas les nôtres. Cela est
la meilleure espérance, le nouvel ordre, l’alliance bien meilleure.
(Héb. 7.19; 8.6; 9.10).
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