In Times of Need

In Times of Need

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)

 

Charles Wesley

once composed a song. Let us consider a few lines of that song.

Arise, my soul, arise; Shake off thy guilty fears;
The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears:
Before the throne my surety stands,
My name is written on His hands.

In these few lines we recognize that sinners are enjoined to come to to the Throne of Grace seeking salvation and by the power of the sacrificial blood Jesus shed on their behalf, receive forgiveness and eternal life with our Lord and Savior.

Because “Christ . . . hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God” (Ephesians 5:2), “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access” (Romans 5:1-2) to the Father, who alone has the power to forgive our sins. We have no need to fear rejection, for “we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). He said all that will come, come. Any who seek Gods face finds it.

We are His children and we must “come boldly unto the throne of grace,” where God the Father fills His throne with Grace. We have assurance we will be allowed to enter therein because of our “surety of a better testament” (Hebrews 7:22) is “a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God” (Hebrews 4:14), and “who is [seated] on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens” (Hebrews 8:1). Here He requests the Father’s “mercy, and . . . grace” on our behalf, for He knows us by our names which are already “written in the Lamb’s book of life” (Revelation 21:27) and have been “from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 17:8). Know God, know peace. Amen 07-01-1920