I write all over the edges of my Bibles.  When I picked up one of them last night, there was a question written at the top of the page of Hebrews:  "Who wrote this???"  It is such a great piece of Christian literature, that I am curious about the author.  My son Scott thinks it might have been Barnabas.

When Paul writes something, he starts by saying, "From Paul, in jail for preaching the Good News about Jesus Christ…"  or something similar.  James and Peter do the same thing.  But the writer of Hebrews doesn't give us any clues.  Whoever he was, he was doctrinally sound.

In Hebrews 4:14a,15, he says:  "…Jesus, the Son of God is our great High Priest who has gone to heaven itself to help us… This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses since he had the same temptations we do, though he never once gave way to them and sinned.  So let us come boldly to the very throne of God and stay there to receive his mercy and find grace to help us in our times of need."

Boldly.  Somehow, I have a hard time with that word.  Even though this is not the only scripture that says we may come boldly to the throne of God.  I have a feeling that I need to crawl on my hands and knees--hoping He will be merciful.  But the word of God tells us that we are His children and that we are to come to Him as a child would to his Father.  And Jesus makes this possible.  We are forgiven.  We are redeemed. (Bought back) We are clean by the blood of Jesus Christ.

So God sees us with mercy and grace.  We have an interceder.  A high priest.  Christ himself.  We are joint heirs with Christ.  With equal opportunity to the throne of God himself.

We certainly don't deserve that.  God could give us justice.

Wouldn't that be horrible.