Wednesday October 22, 2025 - Priest, Prophet

Chapter 21: Priest, Prophet Day 4

Praying the Name:

Hebrews 9:11-14 -  But Christ came as High Priest of the good things [a]to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, [b]sanctifies for the [c]purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without [d]spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 8:7-12 -For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins [a]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”


Father, 

    Thank You and praise You for giving us a High Priest that can take care of us and understands our problems and willing to spend time holding us together and forgiving our sins with His blood over us. 

    Thank You Lord for cleansing my conscience and for giving me the ability to look to You and not feel a total loss in myself. I do love You and I try to live for You so that I am being someone others can tell the difference in. 

    I do have to ask for forgiveness because I do not feel that I have covered all the bipolar sins that I committed, that I sometimes do not want to feel that You have forgiven me because I do not feel worthy. I take the time to ask for forgiveness but there is much of my life I want to go back and change. I was born a psychopath and I want to go back knowing what I know now and live in such a different way all of my life. 

    Help me see that You forgive me and that in the morning when I get up it is a clean slate to work on and in the evening pray for the sins of the day that I try not to do so that morning can be a clean slate before You. 

    

    It has been said that the longest distance in the world is the 18 inches between the head and the heart, that is the distance that belief has to travel before it becomes part of us. We may know something intellectually but not know it emotionally in a way that shapes our expectations and behaviors. Maybe that is why so many people have trouble with forgiveness. Some of us refuse to accept it until we have punished ourselves for a while, wallowing in guilt or forging the grim determination to do better, even and especially if it kills us. 

    We have pathetic efforts to deal with sin our way, constant self-incrimination  only adds to our suffering sooner than later our grief over sin should give way to the sense that God still loves us that He is still merciful still kind, still forgiving. To fail to receive forgiveness is not a sign of humility but of unbelief, and unbelief is a frightening place to live because it multiplies dangers by acting as a barrier to grace, Impeding God's plan for our lives, Jesus is the great High Priest, whose perfect self-offering has won for all of us His complete forgiveness, 

    In a seventeenth century graveyard in Manhattan stands a gravestone startling in its simplicity it contains no name or distinguishing mark but only a single word, a benediction, that captures what it means for us to belong to Christ, that word is forgiven. Let us ask the Holy Spirit today to engrave this powerful word not only in our minds, but on our hearts, so that we can be set free to serve the living God with greater faith and power 

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