Praise God—it is almost Sunday! We get to go back to church! Here is Thom-as Watson, from his excellent work, "The Happiness of Drawing Near to God":
"How we are capable of drawing near to God."By nature we stand in opposition to God, (Col. 1:21). We are alienated, and enemies. How then can we approach near to God? Answer: It is through a Mediator. Jesus Christ is the Screen between us and divine justice. Christ as our High Priest assumes our flesh. Christ's flesh is called a ‘veil,’ (Heb. 10:20). As Moses put a veil over his face when it shone so exceedingly brightly, so as to allow Israel to approach near to him and look upon him—so Christ, having ‘veiled' Himself with our human nature, makes a way for us to now draw near to God and behold Him.
"And as Christ makes the way for us into the Holy of Holies by His incarna-tion, so also by His crucifixion. He died to make God and us friends. The di-vine law was infringed, God's justice was provoked, and satisfaction was de-manded, before we could approach God in an amicable way. Now here 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 court, so as to make 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 into 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."
