the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Hebrews 12:18-29
Here again a contrast is made between what the law offered and what the Christian now possesses in Christ. Instead of the dreadful Sinai, God will substitute grace in Zion in the coming reign of the Messiah (Psalms 2:6). But the child of God has already come to a higher order of blessings. He is invited to scale the slopes of this mountain of grace, to go by faith into the "city of the living God", the heavenly Jerusalem, and there greet its inhabitants. He meets an innumerable company of angels, then the assembly of the first-born, that is the Church. At the summit is God Himself "the Judge of all", but who receives him as redeemed by His Son. As he goes back down towards the base, towards the divine foundation of all these glories, he finds the "spirits of just men made perfect" from ch. 11, and the Lord Jesus "the mediator of the new covenant" sealed with His own blood.
"Heaven is our home", says the hymn. If all things down here are changeable and destined soon to pass away, yet I have a kingdom which cannot be moved; my name is written in heaven (Luke 10:20). And the same grace which gives me access to it, already allows me to serve this holy God – not in a manner acceptable to me, but to Him. Reverence and fear of displeasing Him will keep me in the pathway of His will.
