Fri.-Sabbath, 12/27-29/19 Devotion

Thankfully, it is almost Sunday. We get to go back to church! In order to get us ready for God's holy day, here is Thomas Watson, from his, "The Happi-ness of Drawing Near to God" treatise. . . .

"And as Christ makes the way for us into the Holy of Holies by His incarna-tion; so by His crucifixion, He died to make God and us friends. The divine law was infringed, God's justice was provoked; and satisfaction was demand-ed, before we could approach God in an amicable [friendly] way. Christ as our Priest shed His blood for our sins, and so made the atonement, (Col. 1:20): ‘Having made peace through the blood of His cross.’

“As Joseph [of the OT] was great at [Pharaoh's] court, and made a way for all his brothers to draw near to the king's presence, (Gen. 47:2)—so Jesus Christ is our Joseph, Who makes the way for us by His blood, that we may now come near to God's presence. Through Christ, God is pleased with us. He holds forth the golden scepter, that we may draw near . . . "