The City
Of The Living God
You have not come to something that
can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the
sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not
another word be spoke to them. (For they could not endure the
order that was given, “If an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to
death.”) Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble
with fear.’) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal fathering, and to
the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge
of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the
mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better
word than the blood of Abel.
When we come to Christ in faith, we
joined an invisible host of companions, what the writer of Hebrews says is an
“innumerable company of angels.” Keep this amazing reality in mind as you
worship God. It will give great meaning to every service, whether thousands of
fellow worshippers are present, or just two or three.
When
Christians worship here on earth,
the hosts of
heaven are worshipping with them.
Our Daily
Bread –