"So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.“(Hebrews 4:16 MSG)
Grace is like the paramedic coming to help someone with a medical emergency. They offer assistance to the victim on the spot. They have examined the situation and provide immediate grace to the most serious symptoms. Then they get them an ambulance, which is equipped with more grace - more medical functions - to deal with the problem. As the paramedics are administering more grace to the patient, the ambulance races to the hospital where even more grace is waiting to deal with the patient. Once the patient is in the emergency room, the hospital keeps dispensing grace to meet the need until the problem has been addressed and the patient can go home again. As the song goes: "'Twas Grace that brought me safe thus far, and Grace will lead me home."
One day Jesus heard our emergency call: "I am a sinner and I need a Savior." He shot to your location on earth, found us dying in sin and reached out to save us. As our High Priest, He transported us from where we were, to a place that has all the grace we will ever need as long as we live, until we are finally and fully restored at the resurrection and go home with Him. So, how can we have a Savior and High Priest like this and not draw near to Him in prayer? "But I'm tired" you say. That's ok, just draw near. "But you don't understand. I'm hurting and I feel like quitting." Call upon Him.
Others may not understand, but Jesus does. Just draw near to Him. He will meet you where you are, then take you to where He is – At the throne were there is an abundance of grace ready to be dispensed, by Jesus. Grace!
Grace is like the paramedic coming to help someone with a medical emergency. They offer assistance to the victim on the spot. They have examined the situation and provide immediate grace to the most serious symptoms. Then they get them an ambulance, which is equipped with more grace - more medical functions - to deal with the problem. As the paramedics are administering more grace to the patient, the ambulance races to the hospital where even more grace is waiting to deal with the patient. Once the patient is in the emergency room, the hospital keeps dispensing grace to meet the need until the problem has been addressed and the patient can go home again. As the song goes: "'Twas Grace that brought me safe thus far, and Grace will lead me home."
One day Jesus heard our emergency call: "I am a sinner and I need a Savior." He shot to your location on earth, found us dying in sin and reached out to save us. As our High Priest, He transported us from where we were, to a place that has all the grace we will ever need as long as we live, until we are finally and fully restored at the resurrection and go home with Him. So, how can we have a Savior and High Priest like this and not draw near to Him in prayer? "But I'm tired" you say. That's ok, just draw near. "But you don't understand. I'm hurting and I feel like quitting." Call upon Him.
Others may not understand, but Jesus does. Just draw near to Him. He will meet you where you are, then take you to where He is – At the throne were there is an abundance of grace ready to be dispensed, by Jesus. Grace!
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