The Perfect Prayer
Have you ever went to pray for a friend and found yourself fumbling over words, knowing your forgetting some important aspect of their suffering that you should be praying for?
Well, if you have tasted the goodness of being in the family of God, you have a friend whom knows the exact prayer for your every suffering…
Hebrews 2:17 describes how: “therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.”
At a time in my life where just normalcy seems overbearing, it is such a comfort to me to know that Christ suffered the same way that I am suffering (even in the mundane, daily sufferings) and knows exactly how to pray for me in these times.
He was made like us in every respect… He himself has suffered when tempted and is able to help us who are being tempted (paraphrasing, and emphasis mine).
Who has placed himself in suffering so that He could perfectly empathize with your pain?
Christ alone.
Who stand in the presence of God almighty perfectly petitioning for your suffering?
Christ alone.
Who has suffered himself, perfectly without sin?
Christ alone.
Who has conquered death so that we can one day suffer no more?
Christ alone.
Hebrews 2:14 & 15 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
I’m encouraged.
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
