Today we begin worship with:
Hebrews 10:19-22a
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
When I was a child I stuttered badly. Even today, I will pause unpredictably when speaking.
In today's verse we enter the holy places with confidence (parrēsia). The root of this word is "speech" (reō).
We are not being told to enter the throne room of God with our head held high and our back straight. That we must always do with a humble spirit (Luke 18:9-14). We are being told to speak!
We are to approach our Heavenly Father like a child, without the filters that come with adulthood.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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