²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. ²⁸ You heard me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming.  He has no power over Me; ³¹ but I do as the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go hence. (John 14: 25-31)

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JESUS CHOSE THE CROSS IN OBEDIENCE TO AND LOVE FOR THE FATHER,

TO WHOM HE COULD DECLARE FROM THE CROSS,

“IT IS FINISHED.”

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GOING HOME

Jesus told His disciples that He was going away to the Father. He did not leave them, or us, alone. He left His peace, The Holy Spirit would be sent, and He would come back to take those who follow Him to be with Him forever. We, His current followers, now await His return with anticipation, that we may go home and be with Him and the Father eternally.

GOING HOME

The saying is that one can never go home again as it will not be the same, and we will have changed. Jesus returned to the Father. He went home. God had not changed, for He cannot. The home, heaven, was the same. Yet, what about Jesus, who had become a mortal, living thirty-three years on earth, experiencing what we all go through, suffering and bleeding in death? Was it different for Him, returning home with the perspective of knowing what it was like to be human? He is divine, but because of His experience here and His sacrifice for our sins on the cross, we can go to Him as He understands and can empathize with our struggles, pain, heartaches, and joys. He became our intercessor with the Father.

²³ The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office; ²⁴ but He holds His priesthood permanently, because He continues for ever. ²⁵ Consequently He is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. ²⁶ For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.  (Hebrews 7:23-26)

GOING HOME

Jesus went home and became our High Priest. He chose this through His commitment to take on our sins and offer His life on the cross. Without that sacrifice, we would not have the intercession we can access always through Him to God. Continually and always, Jesus gives to us, speaks for us, and intercedes for us.

What can we do in return, in gratitude to Him?

And He said to all, “If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself  and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23)

(Sharon G. Tate blog 04/4/21)  teacherforjesus.com  Meditations on God’s Word