Friday, April 14, 2006
A queasy day & the freedom Jesus paid for
Sorry this is SO late today, but we decided to travel down to Janesville to spend the day and night with some very close friends of ours.
Amy had a very queasy day. She lost her stomach on three separate occasions and twice before she even had received her treatment. I had the pleasure of escorting my wife to her radiation treatments today. I say ‘pleasure’ because it’s time spent just with her, no kids, no distractions, just her & I. Sometimes we’ll talk about things that we need to get done around the house and other times we’ll talk about life; our plans, our future. I treasure this time, just the two of us talking about incidental things. I love the sound of her voice.
Yesterday I talked about Jesus’ crucifixion & the suffering He endured and the reason He did this was to save us all from the penalty of sin. One other event that happened at the moment of Jesus’ death was the curtain that separated the outer temple of God from the room that they called the ‘Holy of Holies’ was torn in half from the top to the bottom. You may wonder why this is significant. Before I get to that, you need to know a little history about this room. No one was permitted to enter this room except the high priest, and that only once a year to ask for atonement for Israel and It contained only the ark of the covenant with its mercy seat. There was no created light like the sun and no artificial light illuminated this room either. Only the glory of God (God’s Shekinah glory) lit up this Holiest of Places. The High priest would enter this place with a bell and a length of rope attached to his leg. The reason for this is if by chance an impure thought entered the priest’s mind while in the Holy of Holies, the priest would be struck dead and hearing the bell sound, the lesser priest’s would pull the High priest’s body out. Now, the curtain itself was 4 in. thick, 22 yards tall & 11 yards wide and there was no power of man that could have cleaved that curtain. The reason this event is SO significant is this shows us that we no longer need someone to act on our behalf before God. Jesus IS our high priest and we can go to Him directly for our forgiveness, our needs, our comfort. Nothing separates us from talking with Him directly. He is there when we need Him and always will be!
This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V
Amy had a very queasy day. She lost her stomach on three separate occasions and twice before she even had received her treatment. I had the pleasure of escorting my wife to her radiation treatments today. I say ‘pleasure’ because it’s time spent just with her, no kids, no distractions, just her & I. Sometimes we’ll talk about things that we need to get done around the house and other times we’ll talk about life; our plans, our future. I treasure this time, just the two of us talking about incidental things. I love the sound of her voice.
Yesterday I talked about Jesus’ crucifixion & the suffering He endured and the reason He did this was to save us all from the penalty of sin. One other event that happened at the moment of Jesus’ death was the curtain that separated the outer temple of God from the room that they called the ‘Holy of Holies’ was torn in half from the top to the bottom. You may wonder why this is significant. Before I get to that, you need to know a little history about this room. No one was permitted to enter this room except the high priest, and that only once a year to ask for atonement for Israel and It contained only the ark of the covenant with its mercy seat. There was no created light like the sun and no artificial light illuminated this room either. Only the glory of God (God’s Shekinah glory) lit up this Holiest of Places. The High priest would enter this place with a bell and a length of rope attached to his leg. The reason for this is if by chance an impure thought entered the priest’s mind while in the Holy of Holies, the priest would be struck dead and hearing the bell sound, the lesser priest’s would pull the High priest’s body out. Now, the curtain itself was 4 in. thick, 22 yards tall & 11 yards wide and there was no power of man that could have cleaved that curtain. The reason this event is SO significant is this shows us that we no longer need someone to act on our behalf before God. Jesus IS our high priest and we can go to Him directly for our forgiveness, our needs, our comfort. Nothing separates us from talking with Him directly. He is there when we need Him and always will be!
This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V
# posted by Vince @ 9:11 PM 
