With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”*
I can speak to God.
The other day, I reflected on how amazing this sentence is; the more I thought about it the more I got excited!I can speak to God.
There is nothing special about me, I am a young woman of a quiet middle-class family. I have a voice, a heart, dreams, trials, joys. I don't have magic words or a great speaking style, I often stumble over words and repeat myself, I am self-centred and ...well pretty average! Yet...
I can speak to God.
There is a freedom in being able to do things. Even if I did not have much freedom in society, I would have the freedom of my thoughts, and that is all I need to converse with God. He CAN give visions and dreams, He CAN use conversations and situations to convey His plans and message, He CAN change hearts, He CAN understand us and He knows us intimately because He has lived among us! So...
I can speak to God.
Communication is amazing, the fact that I can say something and someone else can understand what I mean! ...I mean, wow! And what is even more amazing is that there is an Unseen God who can hear and SPEAK! His means of communication are words. The Bible is God's message to us, and prayers are one way of returning the conversation. I mean...
I can speak to God.
A relationship with someone is defined by what you mean TO each other. God, the Creator, listens TO us, the creation! It's not just me talking TO a wall; it is me talking TO a person! TO someone who cares and wants TO hear us tell our lives, hopes, dreams, fears. He loves hearing from us; it is a fragrant offering TO the Author of Life. Believe it...
I can speak to God.
I have already alluded to this, but we can talk to GOD... Unseen and Creator, who revealed Himself and speaks, who listens to people and cares! GOD who is Holy and Just, Merciful and Gracious, Almighty and Personal ...that's the One we can speak to! How incredible! What can we say to such a Perfect Being, when we are so not perfect!?
"Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water."**
Back when Moses was being instructed by God on how to live a life pleasing. The LORD had a place symbolic of where he was and it was such a holy place that one could only enter after a complicated ceremony, if that was not done then that person's unholiness would result in their death (for more details on the seriousness of this ceremony read Leviticus 16). But since Jesus, there has been a new way to communicate, because the ceremony was accomplished on the cross... once for all! The temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom!
Resulting in the sentence, I can speak to God.
*Mark 15:37-39
**Hebrews 10:19-22
