November 8
Hebrews 9:1-10
My freshman year of college I switched from being a math major to history. I went from numbers to stories and loved every minute of it. Do you love looking into the past and considering its impact on the present, or not? No matter how you feel about history, Hebrews 9 is a helpful history lesson. It looks to the past to help us understand that no matter how hard people participated in animal sacrifices, made trips to the temple, or participated in religious acts, there were many things the Mosaic Covenant could not do, including providing salvation.
The greatest failure of the old covenant was that it could not take all people into the presence of God. In fact, it only allowed the high priest— and only once a year— to enter the Holy of Holies. This history lesson proved that people needed something more. They needed to look forward to the one who could fully bring salvation, and that someone was Jesus. He came to do that which the old covenant, Levitical priests, and the sacrificial system could not. He came to provide everything we need. Where history only revealed the need, Jesus came to offer us answers.
If you haven’t picked up on it yet, the point of Hebrews is to show us that Jesus is greater than everything else and he alone is the one who can do everything for us. Let us look to him, worship him, praise him, and live for him because nothing and no one else is worthy like he is.
Father God, thank you for Jesus. Help me to respond with gratitude and a life devoted to his glory. Amen.
How can you better take advantage of the access you have to God through Jesus?
My freshman year of college I switched from being a math major to history. I went from numbers to stories and loved every minute of it. Do you love looking into the past and considering its impact on the present, or not? No matter how you feel about history, Hebrews 9 is a helpful history lesson. It looks to the past to help us understand that no matter how hard people participated in animal sacrifices, made trips to the temple, or participated in religious acts, there were many things the Mosaic Covenant could not do, including providing salvation.
The greatest failure of the old covenant was that it could not take all people into the presence of God. In fact, it only allowed the high priest— and only once a year— to enter the Holy of Holies. This history lesson proved that people needed something more. They needed to look forward to the one who could fully bring salvation, and that someone was Jesus. He came to do that which the old covenant, Levitical priests, and the sacrificial system could not. He came to provide everything we need. Where history only revealed the need, Jesus came to offer us answers.
If you haven’t picked up on it yet, the point of Hebrews is to show us that Jesus is greater than everything else and he alone is the one who can do everything for us. Let us look to him, worship him, praise him, and live for him because nothing and no one else is worthy like he is.
Father God, thank you for Jesus. Help me to respond with gratitude and a life devoted to his glory. Amen.
How can you better take advantage of the access you have to God through Jesus?
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