A new year, a new chapter, I feel I should say some poetic and profound words but any that I would try to create would be sure to sound hallow and self righteous. Let us start each time coming to His feast of words He has prepared. May He strip away our own ignorance and self righteousness and feed us His grace.
Extra credit: (What tongue of men or angels can describe the millionth part of what is contained in the word Salvation?) That is what we attempt to capture but a single glimpse or part from this devotion by Joseph Philpot.
Jhn 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
- What is meant by He loved them unto the end and has this end came yet?
When we read the Old Testament we see in those stories the pictures and images of Christ. We see the symbolism in every text that points us to His finished work. The rituals and ordinances of the Jews was the pageantry playing out in their daily lives of their need, Gods electing grace, the perfect sacrifice, and Christ completion of redemption. This is now the fourth Passover the Lord has celebrated publicly. A feast commemorating the Israelites deliverance from bondage. Every lamb slain to this point had been a type of Christ, the Lamb of God. But now there will soon be no more need for pictures, symbols, or images for the final and only Lamb would soon be sacrificed for His nation. The final hour had come. Everything and all time pointed to this hour of Christ. He came into this world to redeem His elect through a perfect and unblamable life. He would soon through His death and blood be as a final and complete offering for our transgressions. And now, this day, we know that hour has come and His work has been completed. We know that He loved His own and accomplished salvation for them and that He is now seated as a victorious mediator. We know now, this day, not through pictures or prophecy but by His revelation and words that He is ever the advocate with the Father and ever secures and loves us unto the end.
(Heb 1:1-3)
