Daily Remembrancer

January 3 Evening: "One Mediator between God and men" - 1 Tim 2:5

NO MAN CAN APPEAR FOR US BEFORE GOD BUT JESUS. He is God's chosen and anointed Mediator. There is but one Mediator; man has invented more but God has appointed, revealed, and accepted but one. One is sufficient. Jesus alone is the Mediator of reconciliation. His atonement is infinite in its value and efficacy; it honoured the law, satisfied justice, and glorified all the perfections of God. It perfected for ever them that are sanctified. It is a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour unto God. On the ground of the one sacrifice of Jesus, sinners are received, pardoned, and accepted of God. Let nothing else engage your attention when seeking acceptance with God; go through Jesus, and Jesus only: however vile, however sinful you may be, there is reconciliation to God through the death of His Son. There is but one Mediator of intercession. One is sufficient. Jesus ever lives to make intercession. The Father always hears Him. We need no one to dispose his mind to pity, listen to, or plead for us; His nature is love: it is His office and work to save, and He delights in this. Therefore He is able to save them to the uttermost, who come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.

For Meditation:
He ever lives to intercede
Before His Father's face:
Give Him, my soul, thy cause to plead,
Nor doubt the Father's grace.

Adapted and edited by Dr Tow S H.