The Way To Reality

Hebrews 8:1

"Now of the things which we have spoken this 

is the sum: We have such a high priest, who

is set on the right hand of the throne

of the Majesty in the heavens;"    

        There can be no glory greater than that of the ascended and exalted Jesus.  Jesus is the unique example of divine majesty and divine service combined. He knew that He had been given His supreme position, not jealously to guard it in splendid isolation, but rather to enable others to attain to it and to share it. 

        But we could put this another way. Instead of talking about access to God we might talk about access to reality. Every religious writer has to search for terms which his readers will understand. He has to present his message in language and in thoughts which will get home because they are familiar or at least will strike a chord in the reader's mind. The Greeks had a basic thought about the universe. They thought in terms of two worlds, the real and the unreal. They believed that this world of space and time was only a pale copy of the real world. That was the basic doctrine of Plato, the greatest of all the Greek thinkers. He believed in what he called forms. Somewhere there was a world where there was laid up the perfect forms of which everything in this world is an imperfect copy.

        In the highest that this world can offer there is imperfection. It never quite reaches what we know that it might be. Whatever we experience or achieve here in this world is nothing, compared to what is waiting for us in the real world beyond.  A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Call it heaven, call it reality, I call it it God! 

        Amen! 

  

Reading: (Heb. 8:1-7)

Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry