I was thinking this morning about our right to draw near to Jesus. How often do we take that for granted?
In today’s passage, there were some Greek men that didn’t feel they had that privilege, probably because they were Gentiles, outsiders to the Jewish community, and Jesus was a famous rabbi.
But Jesus was lifted up on a cross so that all of us could draw near to him. (John 12:32)
It made me think of an old hymn.
What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear.
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.O what peace we often forfeit.
O what needless pain we bear.
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.— Joseph Medlicott Scriven
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