It’s Friday…Our Reason For Being

It happened this week in America. But why don’t we do it more often? Why do we wait until we are on the cusp of desperation? We must make intercession a regular rhythm of our lives.

“Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”  (Amos 7:5)

God looked at the awful condition of sinful humanity and marveled that there was no one to intercede (Isaiah 59:16). That’s the word of the Sovereign God, the God who can do anything He wants to do at any time He wants to do it. So why is He looking for someone to intercede? Because He gave humanity dominion over things on earth. For things on earth to be rectified, humanity has to exercise dominion.

That’s why God ultimately sent His Son to intercede for us; no human being was righteous enough to represent us to a Holy God. But chosen servants before and after the intercession of the Son have been granted the opportunity to perform the same function. The redeemed – those who have received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord – are a nation of priests performing a service of sacrifice. When God pronounces judgment, we intervene.

That’s how He designed it. As people conform to His image, we can reflect His judgment or His grace. His eye searches out those who embody the same priorities that He does: mercy over justice. The revelation of His righteousness is given for those who will plead the words of Amos. God invites us to invite Him to relent.

How much of our prayer life is directed toward interceding? God has placed us squarely in the gap between His righteousness and the world’s unrighteousness. What will we do with our position? Is our heart in conformity with God’s?

As followers of Jesus, let’s make sure that it is. Our heart as believers is designed to understand God’s judgment and give Him a human voice of intercession. His mercy is meant to flow through us, His priests, whom He has ordained on behalf of the world. In other words, He saved us by grace for a reason.

Let that be Our Reason For Being. Let’s develop a heart of mercy and pled with God for Him to withhold His judgment. He did it again in America this past week. Let’s never forget that He delights in such pleas. They reflect His heart exactly.

Have a mercy-filled weekend. Make it better by worshiping The LORD with those who understand His heart because they know His mercy and experience it new every morning.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)