August 12, 2012

Mediator: August 6, 2012

TODAYS WORD FOR MONDAY AUGUST 6, 2012.

MEDIATOR

DEFINITION:

One who reconciles disagreements between two or more estranged people; one who settles an issue; interceder; peacemaker.

SCRIPTURE:

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” I TIMOTHY 2:5

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Mediation is not without a price. Just ask someone who has hired a lawyer. Literally millions of dollars are spent on mediation by two parties when they face some sort of disagreement.

Has it ever occurred to you that you have a most important case pending? It is YOU versus GOD. Romans 3:23 tells us that “all have sinned.” God is perfect and without sin and our sin separates us from God. In Isaiah 59:2 it reads that “your iniquities have separated you from your God.” This is a universal truth and unchangeable, applying to all men and women, that sin separates people from God. We are in disagreement with God and our relationship with Him is broken. Therefore we need a mediator.

A mediator is someone who intervenes between two parties to resolve a conflict or ratify a covenant. Jesus Christ is the only mediator who can restore peace between God and sinners.

God sent His Son to die on the cross to cover our sins in order that we could be reconciled to God. As we said, mediation comes with a price and Jesus paid dearly giving His life on the cross to cover our sins. In I Timothy 2:5, Paul not only instructs Timothy but reminds us that the man Christ Jesus is the one and only mediator between us and God. There is no other way to salvation.

We cannot come to God except through Jesus. Jesus said this to us, as recorded in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus declared here that He is the way to God because He is the truth of God. The message here is exclusive and emphatic that Jesus is the only approach that man has to God. There is no other way. It is through Jesus that God sent us His love and forgiveness. It is only through Jesus, our mediator, that we are able to come before God and ask His forgiveness for our sins and offer Him our thanks and our praises for His goodness. We ask you the question, “Have you met with your mediator today?”

Our children, like all children, did not always see eye to eye on issues all the time so they would get into verbal fights with each other. Each one thought that they were right and the other child was wrong. Once in a while it usually ended up that they would have to come to one or both of us to plead their cases. There sometimes was such a serious disagreement between them that the usual loving relationship between them was broken. They needed us to be a mediator to reconcile them.

Children are not the only ones who need a mediator to reconcile broken relationships in life. Most of the problems in our world are related to broken relationships over issues. Mediators are necessary to solve the issues of these broken relationships.

We could not get along it seems, without a legal system of lawyers and judges who serve as mediators in settling disagreements between two parties. Even in churches today, pastors become mediators for those who come for counseling to settle their disagreements. Governments and political leaders have disagreements which are usually solved when a third party mediator comes on the scene.

As a result of our sinful nature, people find themselves constantly in a position where mediation of some sort is necessary. But the most important mediator for those of us who are believers is the mediator that God has provided us through His Son Jesus Christ. Thankfully, Jesus paid the price for us once and for all, and He is alive and interceding for us in heaven so that we can come to God’s throne of grace at anytime and from anywhere.

LEARNING:

Our memory verse for this week is found in Psalm 119:11.

Your Word have I hid in my heart that I may not sin against You.

PRAYER:

Thank You, Jesus, for paying the price that I could never pay and for being the mediator between God and me. Thank You for dying on the cross to save me from all my sins. Thank You for making it possible to come to God in prayer to make my requests known to God and to thank Him for the blessings He has given me.

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