The way God is, should shape who we’re becoming.
When Joshua the High Priest stands before God in filthy clothes, we learn that on our own we stand condemned before God. But the good news is that Jesus has taken our filthy garments on himself and paid for our sin on the cross, and he gives us robes of perfect righteousness. And not only do we stand clothed before God when we put our faith in Christ, but we live in those clothes, as we stand called to point to Christ as testaments to his great grace in our lives.
Who is this man, Jesus, who’s able to touch unholy things, and make them holy?
When the Christian Hope of heaven and the enjoyment of God is our hope, we begin to enjoy the blessings of our future inheritance in the present.
Put before your eyes the sorts of things that will promote thoughts that are substantial, and satisfying, and glorious.
As people who are both physical and spiritual beings, God cares for us, both physically and spiritually, through his ministers and through the life of the whole church. Embodied, in-person ministry matters.
The right attitude of the Christian should never be “God shows me grace, so I can keep sinning!” Instead, the right attitude that we see here is “God shows me grace, so I can keep obeying!”
The testimony of the universe, and of the Scriptures, and of the Lord Jesus Christ is that God deserves your trust and your reverent obedience.
In prayer, we’re raised up into conversation with Him – with the invisible, eternal inventor of galaxies and subatomic particles.
Background Over the past few weeks, we’ve been considering the words of the prophet, Haggai, who was sent by God to the Jewish people. The Jews had rebelled against God…