Praise God—Sunday is almost here! In order to help get us ready for the Lord’s Day, here is Thomas Watson, from his work entitled, "The Happiness of Drawing Near to God":
“Even 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 being infringed, God's justice was provoked, and satisfaction was de-manded, before we could come to God in an amicable 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 so great at the Egyptian court, that he made a way for all his brothers to draw near to the pharaoh'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 unto God's presence. Through Christ, God is pleased with us; He holds forth the golden scepter, that we may draw near, and touch the top of the scepter [cf. Esth. 5:2]."
