“There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.”

Exodus 25:22

As the God-man writhes alone in pain, under the just wrath of God, on a wooden cross, 2000 years ago, God does away with any barrier to us having Him as our Joy and our greatest delight.  Our Faith, Joy and Love are blood soaked, blood purchased, and wrought by God himself for His glory and therefore for our joy. 

Christ pays the price that we owe to God, so that we may, “taste and see that he Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8). While Jesus chokes down all of our sin and all the wrath of God that we deserve, we get to enter into the presence of God, absolutely confident on account of Christ.

If we were to ask how serious God takes the glory of His name, His Holiness and His righteousness; we ought to see the life, death and resurrection of Christ and the lake of fire answering back to us “God takes the glory of His name deadly serious”. However this is also how we can have the uttermost confidence of God’s deep self-sacrificing love for us and have confidence that “Christ will never lose any Christian” (Doug Wilson); For it is in Christ’s atoning death that God propitiates all of His deep, personal and righteous wrath toward us. If you want to see how God reacts to us sinners and our sin, look at Christ on the cross; yet if you want to see the depth if the love of God for hell-deserving sinners look no further than the cross of our dear Lord and Savior.

We are naturally the objects of God wrath, however through the Gospel, Christ becomes the object of God’s wrath, as if He were the one who committed all of our atrocious sinful. 

This is why Christ himself is the long awaited mercy seat. Thank God, For Jesus.

From the cross, in the tomb, in the resurrection and enthronement of Jesus, God says to sinners, “There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.” (Exodus 25:22).

There is no other place that God meets with Humanity than in His precious Son, as He offers up His life. Christ is our mercy seat. 

Prayer: Father, Thank you, thank you, a million times over, thank Father for your Son. Oh my Lord God, Thank you for all you have given and all you have done. Jesus you are everything and everything belongs to you. Thank you God for all that you are for us in Christ. We trust and love you so much Please my Lord and my God, cleanse our hearts from sin and selfishness our hearts and prepare us by your Spirit to desire you above all things.