"Are You Kidding Me"

Caleb Said; "WOW"!

A few weeks ago Carey (my bride) and her sister Kim went to Alabama to visit their father who was undergoing heart surgery.  Carey was gone for a few days and Daddy's Boy (Caleb) and I spent all our time together.  At night we would pray for Mommy, Breana, Joshua, Corina and Grampa Fred (Carey's Dad).  We would end of our prayers with; In Jesus Name, Amen!

At the end of this particular prayer Caleb said (He is two years old) "God"?  I responded with; yes, we were talking to God.  Caleb then said in his two year old draw; WOWWW!  I told him that it is WOW that we can speak directly to God!

It wasn't always this way though.  Before Jesus died on the cross for our sins, there was a vail which separated the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place and only the High Priest could enter after much preparation.  It is commonly told that the High Priest had a rope tied around his waist and if he entered God's presence with unconfessed sin he died and had to be dragged out.

Jesus is our High Priest and upon His death the vail was torn in two.

"And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent" (Matthew 27:51).  

The significance is that we can commune directly with God The Father and that is WOW!  Incredible that my two year old can get this and most can't see it?

"And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all" (Hebrew 9:3).  "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing"  (Hebrew 9:8).   "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us" (Hebrews 9:11-12).

Happy Fourth

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