The power of an indestructible life

Hebrews 7:15-16 And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. Imagine if you sinned today and wanted to pray to God for forgiveness and help. But before you could pray, by law, you had to go physically to a temple and offer a sacrifice upon which you confessed your sins. You placed your hand on the animal while confessing your sins, signifying that you were becoming one with the offering, and its blood would be your payment for your sins, so you could then pray with holy hands. That’s what the Law required before you could approach God and pray. Those were all physical requirements—you had to go to a physical place, offer a physical sacrifice, using a physical person as your mediator, before you could pray. Aren’t you glad God has raised up a priest who is not bound by the physical requirements of the law but instead offers a relationship with God based on His power to give eternal, indestructible life?! Let’s think about the power of an indestructible life. The greatest power God has is the power to give life. The apostle John wrote in his gospel, “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men” (John  1:3–4). The apostle Paul giving a charge to Timothy praised God when he wrote, “I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things.” Jesus has the power to give life eternal because He always lives to intercede for us and serve as our priest. We live before God even as Jesus lives before God. We are seated in Him, united forever with Him, and have the same future as Him. That’s our hope today as we live to love with Jesus. Hold fast to that hope, and let us overflow with thanksgiving, joy, and love because of that hope. Christ in us, the hope of glory.