“He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.” Job 9:32-35.
Because of one man fellowship with God was broken, but because and through One Man we can now go to God always.
Job here, is caught in a deep discussion with his friends. These friends are sure of themselves and their “wisdom” and are trying to tell Job how he should be dealing with the situation he finds himself in. Job, on the other hand, just wants God to tell him where he went wrong, what he did to cause this disaster, so he can apologize and either get on with his life or have his life ended. Yet, Job realizes that he has no way to have a conversation with God because God is Sovereign, greater than any human, out of reach from any face-to-face discussion, and there is no one to be an intercessor for him. Job, in the depths of his heart, recognized that he needed a great mediator to plead his cause and get God to forgive him.
Now let’s rewind a bit…
In the beginning, when God created man, he also walked with man and talked with man. I’m sure God loved conversing with Adam about all the animals and the plants and about life in general with Eve. But Adam and Eve sinned; they took from the one thing that God commanded them not to. And when they did, they broke fellowship with God, forming a chasm so deep and wide there was no longer a way for them to converse with him. God banished them from Eden and from His presence.
This is where we find ourselves…somewhere between the chasm, desiring to be in fellowship with God.
When we do something wrong or getting the raw end of the deal, when we’ve had trauma in our life or caused trauma to our lives, we all want to be forgiven, we all want to know what we did wrong and how we can fix it. Don’t we all want the pain to be taken away?!
But unlike Adam and unlike Job, we do have a great Mediator, one that can go to God at any point in time and all the time, on our behalf. Jesus came to the earth for this one purpose, to mend the brokenness and build a bridge for a full on relationship with God. He died on the cross for our sins to remove them from us once and for all, and then went to the Father on our behalf as the Great Mediator to prepare our future home with Him in the presence of God.
Because of one man our relationship with God was broken, but because of another man it was healed. We now have the ability to go to God all the time: the good times, the bad times, in self-inflicted harm, and from harm caused by others. God sees us and hears us, and desires to heal us and give us Peace.
We have a mediator, His name is Jesus.
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