But Jesus crossed the great gulf from the Holy land of heaven, and he landed his boat in the defiled regions of the earth – because in mercy, he loved us.
Christians shouldn’t be timid people.
And yet the great Son himself is the one who stoops down into our humiliation, so that we can be raised up into his household.
We need our great king, to make a judicial pronouncement – that our sins have been dealt with at the cross, and that our souls have been dressed with his righteousness.
Our salvation – and our relationship with God – it isn’t based on the greatness of what we’ve done, or what we do. But it’s all a gift, that comes through the greatness of our high priest.
Jesus is not just one prophet among many. Jesus is The Great Prophet who can reveal God perfectly to us, because he is God and near to God.
You and I are simply charged with spreading God’s word in faith. And we can trust that in God’s way – in God’s time – according to the full measure of God’s power and glory – he will bring the growth.
Pay attention to what you’ve heard.
Psalm 28 shows us how God brings us from worry to worship by teaching us to trust in his work, even when he sometimes seems silent.
Will you curse God and sink? Or will you trust God and swim?