Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Open Door

By Max Lucado at maxlucado.com

“We are completely free to enter the Most Holy Place . . . We can enter through . . . the curtain—Christ’s body.”  Hebrews 10:19-20

To the original readers, those last four words were explosive: “the curtain—Christ’s body.” According to the writer, the curtain equals Jesus. Hence, whatever happened to the flesh of Jesus happened to the curtain. What happened to his flesh? It was torn. Torn by the whips, torn by the thorns. Torn by the weight of the cross and the point of the nails. But in the horror of his torn flesh, we find the splendor of the open door . . . We are welcome to enter into God’s presence—any day, any time.

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