Gaining Access

We can gain access to almost anyone or any place in a variety of ways. Very few times is it just one way. You can get to your favorite travel destination using any number of roads. There are most likely multiple routes that you can take, depending upon things like you preferring to avoid toll roads or highways. Do you want the fastest route or one with the least number of miles? Maybe the most scenic.

If you want to talk with someone, and because of distance, meeting them for coffee is not an option, with current technology, the ways to do that are almost limitless. Video Conferencing. Email. Text. Social media platforms. How about the old-fashioned ways of writing a letter or calling them?

While gaining access to people, places, and things can often be done many ways, unlike what some might say, we gain access to God only one way. Christians, which I am one, are often accused of being narrow minded because of our claim that there is only one way to God. Let me first say; we did not invent that assertion. We are only the messengers of a claim found in God’s Word, the Bible. The claim was made first by Jesus. When being questioned by Thomas, the doubting disciple here is what is Jesus said to him – “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

The apostle Paul put it this way – “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time” (1 Timothy 2:5-6).

The writer of Hebrews tells us that no sinful person, and we are all sinful, can have access to the Father except through the blood of Jesus (10:19-22). There is language in this passage about a curtain. If you are thinking, “say what?,” maybe one of my previous posts (click here) will be of some help.

While it is true that we gain access to God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son, do not be fooled into thinking that you cannot go to God directly. Yes, it is through Jesus our High Priest that we can enter into God’s presence (Hebrews 4:15-16), but I believe Jesus does not want to be our intercessor, speaking to God on our behalf..

What I mean by that is Jesus instructs us to take our requests directly to God. Here are His words to his disciples and to you and me today – “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God” (John 16:25-27).

So, through Jesus the Son, you can go boldly and expectantly go to God the Father; a Father who loves you, a Father who knows your name (John 10:3), and a Father who has you on His mind every minute of every day (Psalm 139:17-18). I will end with this – “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).

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