344. Boldness to Enter
Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
God gave us boldness to enter into the very holiest place in heaven and earth. It is the place where the glory of God is brilliant in the beauty of holiness. Sin and anyone sinful cannot approach the holy presence of God or else he or she would be immediately consumed and destroyed. Consumption and destruction is the only possible outcome if God is really holy and if He will be just. That fact leaves us out, and we don’t want to be consumed by the consuming fire of God. And we don’t have a choice, as there is nothing we can do about it. The only honest thing we can do is deny the existence of God, and just hope He isn’t real. But that’s not a live option, for whether we believe it or not God is still real. And if there is a God, He is holy and just and must consume sin and sinners. He has no choice.
The only solution to the problem is the solution that God actually came up with: send the Son of God into the world to take the sin of the world upon Himself and bear the just judgment upon sin. Thank God for Jesus. He made a way where there is no way. And God will always do that for His created beings: He redeemed them, and He continues to rescue them from evil.
The outcome of God’s executed plan is that by the blood of Jesus we have boldness to enter into the holy presence of God. This boldness to enter involves two things: 1) God forgives and saves and invites us into His holy presence now and forever; 2) God allows us to come into His presence through prayer and faith in the blood of Jesus to have an audience with Almighty God. This means that we may have boldness to pray. Because of Christ God accepts us and listens to us. He may not answer our bold requests the way we want, but He receives the request and listens with a loving ear to His dear children. Therefore, we can be bold to enter, knowing that the Lord will be open and receptive to the needs we express. We may not get what we want, but we will get what God wants. So be bold to enter.