Saturday, 07 March 2009
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JESUS WAITS (notes from 2/12/09)
The author of the book of Hebrews spends quite a bit of time explaining how Jesus Christ is a better sacrifice and a better priest than the sacrifices and priests of the Old Covenant. In chapter 10 he writes
"But our High Priest offered himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down at the place of highest honor at God's right hand. THERE HE WAITS until his enemies are humbled as a footstool under his feet."
This thought grabbed me: JESUS WAITS!
He knows God's will and God's promises perfectly, but it is not yet God's time, so HE WAITS---perfectly content and perfectly within God's will to do so.
It's not a time of doing nothing, for He is ministering as my advocate (9:24), but He is still in waiting mode, actively doing what God has for Him now, looking forward to and waiting for that day when all His enemies are humbled under His feet. How His Holiness and Justice must LONG for that day! But HE WAITS, with this longing, without sin, in either the longing or the wait.
Who would have thought that I could be like Jesus even in my waiting? Only by His grace, because in myself I wait very poorly.
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