When I opened my laptop to write this morning, my software alerted me to an update that was ready to be installed for the app that I use for my writing. When I clicked the alert, it opened a different app that handles the updates, and then that app told me that I wasn’t registered and needed to buy a plan that would allow me to proceed.
It’s confusing, I know, but hang in there a bit longer — I’m going somewhere.
The problem is that I already have a plan, and when I entered my account information, it still didn’t recognize it in the app even though it did on the website for that app.
All of this work to get into an app that I already have access to has left me a little frustrated. And yet, what a beautiful reminder of the access that we’ve been given in Christ! Eugene Peterson worded it beautifully in his paraphrase, The Message:
“Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s not let it slip through our fingers. We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.” (Hebrews 4:14-16, emphasis mine)
With the Father, we don’t have to change our passwords every 90 days, or make sure we include the right number of capital letters while also including a specific set of special characters. To “walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give” requires one password.
It’s never changed, and it never will. In fact, it’s the only password that can grant us access to the throne of grace, and it’s available to all who request it.
No annoying two-factor authentication, or emails with verification codes sent to that email address you stopped using 3 years ago. Just the name that is above all names, that tore the veil in two, and the name of the One who lives to intercede for those who follow him.
Jesus.
That name allows all who use it to come and “take the mercy” and “accept the help.”
Access granted.
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