I was so blown away this morning as God opened my eyes to another distorted view I had of Him. I have read this scripture so many times and heard it preached so many times but I
have to say that today God showed me a beautiful new picture of Him through a devotion He led me to specifically. Here is the picture I had as I sat back and thought about this scripture:
I pictured Jesus pleading & begging God the Father on my behalf because I was such a mess. I
continually screw up so He has to continually plead for mercy, forgiveness, grace & blessings
on my behalf. I was shocked when I realized how distorted this view was. This image makes my precious wonderful heavenly Father look so tight-fisted that Jesus has to pry grace our of His fingers for me. This picture does not fit into anything that I am coming to discover about
God and His heart for us. I don't begin to say that I understand this scripture completely but
I will say that it hold so much more beauty for me now. I looked up the word intercession and
found one of the descriptions of the word entygchano means to go or meet a person especially
with the purpose of conversation. What a beautiful picture I now have. My Jesus, my high
priest is having a conversation with the Father on my behalf not because I am this lowlife
creature but a child that the Father dearly loves. I am so sad for those who have been given
this same distorted picture of the character of God that I had. I do not claim to say that I
fully understand what the scripture means when it says Jesus lives to make intercession for us.
I just know I am walking in yet another place of freedom on who God says I am!
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