GodReflection: Power Words

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; – Psalms 95:6

To encounter my Priest is to worship.

Prior to the resurrection of Jesus a priest stood between God and redemption. The priest administered sacrifices on behalf of the people. The priest pronounced a person clean before he could step into the presence of God.

The Son of God joined in the linage of Aaron, Eleazar, and Ithamar, as High Priest invited to enter into the holy presence of God.

Jesus was the last in line of thousands of priest who served over the centuries to atone for the people. His priesthood was unique. Instead of the animal, he offered his one and only self as the final sacrifice that would endure throughout eternity.

The result for me is my Priest lives forever. My Priest—unlike any priest before—is worthy of worship.

I worship him because he is holy. I worship him because he is Trinitarian God.

I worship him because he made it possible for Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to orient my walk on earth.

I worship him because his blood cleanses continually my sin.

I worship him because he forgives.

I worship him because he shows me how to live.

I worship him because he gives me hope. A hope rooted in expectation. An anticipatory hope of the time I will live on a new earth beneath a new heaven in the face-to-face presence of the Holy Trinity.

Whoever wrote the letter to the Hebrew church in the first century left a wonderful legacy. The author painted a meticulous work of art to describe Jesus as Priest. His painting that invokes worship.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. . . . one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. . . . because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.

 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. . . . Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, . . . He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. . . . when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God . . .

Here is what I think.

Sure my Priest is worthy of corporate worship. However, he is worthy of so much more. He is worthy of constant residence in my soul.

I want the word priest to become a word of power in my life.

I want every thought and action to pass through the filter of Priest worship.

Stay tuned.

Dr. Gary J. Sorrells – A GodReflection on Priest as a Power Word.

Gary@GodReflection.org