Once a week the garbage truck arrives to pick up the garbage....the truck pulls up to the plastic container, lifts it up, dumps it in the truck, sets it down and moves on to the next can....gone are the days when the garbage collection was done by a truck and three or four men, running alongside tossing trash into a truck by hand...this man rarely gets out of the truck, and still needs a workout session at the end of the day...but he is precise in his driving....
In our Bible study the other day, we were talking about Old Testament times when the high priest went into the Holy of Holies once a year to pray for the sins of the nation, the people. How the people could accumulate a whole year's worth of garbage (sin) and load it upon the priest...they didn't have or take the privilege the torn curtain of the temple to go personally to God with sin like we can now.
Although when you read various accounts of Old Testament people, they did pray and talk to God with out going through the high priest...Job, Nehemiah, David, Joseph, Daniel, and so on...
Now in New Testament times, we have a direct line to God. We don't have to have someone else go into the sanctuary for us...what an awesome privilege, responsibility...we have the Holy Spirit who lives in us, we have the Son who died for us, the Father who fathers us...all who are on our side, giving us life, purpose, interceding, desiring the best for us...we don't have to wait for that garbage truck to take away the load of sin, we can dump it immediately...
Thank YOU so much for all You do, taking our sins away...always there...listening, pleading our case...
1 John 1:9
New International Version (NIV)
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 103:12
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Romans 8:34
Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
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