We Share in Christ's Joy!

God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Christ communicates to us His delight to do God's will, and the joy that He has in it. Christ prays that we will enter into His joy!

Just before He died for us, Jesus told us of the Father's love for Christ and for all who trust in Him. Jesus promised us that the Spirit of God would come down and indwell us. Jesus promised He would raise us all up from the grave at the end. Jesus told us He is preparing a place for us in Glory, and that He will come again and take us there to be with Him forever!

Christ instructed us to love the brethren, to love the Father, and of His love for us. He urged us to be obedient to His commandments because of that love.

In other words, we are to be a joyous, obedient band of brothers with Christ, our prince and our kinsman redeemer, knit together in joy, love, faith and courage. The purpose is that, in the end, all the joyous things Christ promised will be accomplished in every one of us who have trusted in Him.

Christ longs for us to enter into His joy in all this, into His delight to do God's will.

How can we refuse? After all, our joy and Christ's joy are the outflow of God's comfort to us in saving us by our great high priest and His perfect offering for our sin!

Christ told us all these things while He was with us for a reason: "now come I to Thee [the Father], and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves."

As Christ redeems us by His righteousness and bloody sacrifice in our place, the comfort of God sets in upon us, as we grasp the unspeakable riches of His love!