Four Reasons to Rejoice in Jesus
Here are four meditations from Hebrews to stir up joy in Jesus.
"After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Hebrews 1:4).
Behold the glory of Jesus! By a single offering, He brought to completion what generations of animal sacrifice could never do. He made purification for sins. Consider four points of meditation to rejoice over:
Rejoice in the humility of His work! It’s impossible to purify a thing without coming into contact with whatever defiles it. So it is with our sin. Jesus Himself would take on our sins and bear the judgment in His own body to purify us.
Rejoice in the effectiveness of His work! The cross was not a demonstration of well-wishing sympathy but an actual accomplishment. Jesus Himself made purification for sins! When he laid his life, he could say, "It is finished" because his death satisfies divine justice.
Rejoice in the finality of His work! Not only does the death of Jesus satisfy divine justice today, but once for all. So, after accomplishing purification, Jesus sat down! There is nothing more that we could add to what He has done. There is no greater purity than the purity Jesus brought freely through his blood.
Rejoice in the assurance of His work! Right now, the risen Christ sits at the Father's right hand as the head of the church. In the words of CH Spurgeon, "Christ, the head of the body, is in heaven, and until you can drown the head of the body, you cannot drown the body, and if the head be in heaven, beyond the reach of harm, then every member of the body is alive and secure, and shall at last be in heaven too."
Behold the glory of Jesus!