This week, we are reminded of God's great power in judgment, and guilty man's abject powerlessness to stand before Him. It is into this dismal state that our Lord Jesus steps and saves us, whereby we discover our desperate need for an advocate to reconcile us to God.
Job was crushed by the unyielding power of God's providence. His "friends" taunted him that nobody in heaven would come to his defense, and Job longed for a daysman, an arbiter to at least explain God to him and his complaint to God. It was the inequality and impotence of man before God that vexed Job so.
But our Lord Jesus is that long hoped for advocate, to reconcile sinners unto a righteous and holy God. He does so through the incarnation, in which He was made like unto mankind whom He would rescue, and in which human body He bore our sins in the judgment for sin by God.
Our Lord Jesus interposed His body between us and the wrath of God at Calvary, and all who trust in Him are reconciled to God.
But an incident this week brings further clarity to Christ's character and sympathy with sinners.
A lawyer zealously defended his client before a judge in Jackson last Wednesday, and the Judge threw the lawyer in jail for his zealousness.
But the lawyer's motive is astounding: a decade ago, he himself was falsely accused of a crime and jailed for a whole year before he was exonerated.
This lawyer was so zealous for his client because he had personally experienced the torment his client faces.
Our Lord Jesus knows what God's wrath for sin feels like, for He experienced it in our place on the cross. Therefore, He is all the more zealous to intercede for His people, that we might be spared!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
