Before and after (5/24/2020)

We are living in a very different time.  We are starting say the phrase “before COVID”. It is becoming the new “BC”.

Today we are asked to meditate on:

Hebrews 8:1-2

Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.

To do so let’s pause a moment and recall what it was like before Christ. When Job’ssteadfastness was without having seen Emanuel.

Job 9:33

“There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.”

He had only one choice.  That to throw himself on God’s purpose.  Read his answer to God:

Job 42:1-6

Then Job answered the Lord and said:

“I know that you can do all things,

    and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

 . . .  

therefore I despise myself,

    and repent in dust and ashes.”

We too must throw ourselves on God’s purpose, but we do so having seen what prophets longed for:

Psalm 68:17-19

You ascended on high,

leading a host of captives in your train

and receiving gifts among men,

even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

Rejoice indeed that we live “AD”.