Morning Musings-Fix Your Thoughts

 Morning Musings with the boys at breakfast...





Fix your thoughts on Jesus.  Meditate on Him as Apostle, our High Priest and as the Faithful One; He is worthy of greater honor than anyone or anything else.  The Hebrews revered Moses who was a very great leader of the Israelites (You can read the fascinating story throughout the book of Exodus).  Yet, the writer of Hebrews is telling them that...
 
...Jesus is GREATER than Moses!


So just stop and ponder a while.  Why is Jesus called "Apostle"?  Apostle means 'sent one'.    God sent Jesus from Heaven to be the Savior of the world.  Fix your thoughts on that!!  Thank Him for it if you have indeed made Jesus your Savior.  If you have not, don't wait.  God sent Jesus for you!  He wants to be the savior of your soul.  

High Priest.  Why is Jesus referred to as 'High Priest'?  What did the High Priest do in the Old Testament Judaism times?  The high priest was to be the mediator between the people and God.  He could only go into the most holy place of the tabernacle (the meeting place with God) once a year.  To enter that most holy place he could only do so when he had the blood of an animal in each hand; one for the atonement of his own sins and the other for the sins of the people.  He had to do so yearly.  

With Jesus, He shed His blood once, for all people for all time for all sin, as my father always used to like to tell us.  He is our mediator between God and us.  "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins..." (Hebrews 9:22; see also Leviticus 17:11).  Jesus shed His blood on the cross and it is "The blood of Jesus that cleans us from all sin." (1 John 1:7).  Thus, fix your thoughts on Jesus being our High Priest.  Let Him be your High Priest.  Ask Him now.

God has kept His promises.  Jesus is God.  He is ever faithful.  "He never fails." (Zephaniah 3:5).  We also know that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8).  He is the Faithful One.  Jesus was faithful to God.  God sent Him as His Apostle and Jesus was faithful to fulfill all God had asked Him to accomplish on this earth; the securing of our salvation by being our High Priest.  (John 17:1-5).  "Moses was faithful as God's servant but Jesus was faithful as God's Son! (Hebrews 3:1-19 esp vs 5, 6)  Again we can say that Jesus is greater than Moses.  Would you not say that Jesus is faithful?  Fix your thoughts on that.  Trust Him.

The writer of the book of Hebrews told them, and us, that the Holy Spirit tells us all not to harden our hearts against Jesus.  When we hear His voice, listen.  He is our Apostle, High Priest, and He is faithful.   Hold on firmly to Jesus.  Fix your thoughts on Jesus.

                                                                ~ERC  2016~