God Chooses to Meet with Man

Exodus 25:22 (ESV)
22 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.

God Chooses to Meet with Man

There are a lot of religions in the world.  Each has their own unique way of folding in some basic aspects that are true to them all.  1). Each has a God (often called by a name unique to that faith).  2). Each seems to believe that man has something wrong and there is a separation between man and that person they call “God.”   3). Each has a method by which man, in his “fallen” state, can be redeemed and have “fellowship” or “acceptance” with the god they call “God.”   However, it is ONLY Christianity that has God comes to man to bridge that gap.  Only in Christianity does God do all the work to heal the “sin” that separates man from God.   In all other faiths man does the work to prove he is worthy enough to to commune with God.   In the above passage we see that God chooses to fellowship with God.   God wants to fellowship with man AND makes the way for that to happen.  In the Old Testament He did so through the Tabernacle and sacrificial system.  These, however, were only a type of way to demonstrate the need for a blood sacrifice and a representative to come holy to God. In the New Testament we see the Christ is that Tabernacle and that representative.   Note how the writer of Hebrews says it:

Hebrews 10:19-23 (ESV)
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

We have a priest, Jesus, who makes away for us to fellowship with God through His shed blood.  We can rejoice in the same Mercy seat that Moses and Aaron rejoiced in through the building of the Tabernacle and the killing of the lambs.  But, we do so by the Lamb of God, His Son.  He has made a way for us to fellowship with God because God chooses to fellowship with man and made a way for that to happen.