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E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
Shadow Boxing
"The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming -
not the realities themselves." (v. 1)
-- For reading & meditation: Hebrews 10:1-18
We talked two days ago of humanity's efforts to try to reach God
through philosophy and moralism or the law. The inadequacy, even
bankruptcy, of trying to find God through the law is brought out most
clearly in the passage before us today. The law, we are told,
contains no true image, merely a shadow. It was the Word become word,
hence a shadow and not an image. It follows that all discussion about
the law being the route to finding God is nothing more than shadow
boxing. It ends in futility. One day, after centuries of sacrificing
animals - during which time God instilled in human minds the
important idea of substitution - the unexpected happened. The writer
to the Hebrews put it in these words: "Sacrifice and offering you did
not desire, but a body you prepared for me" (v. 5). Christ said to
the Father: "Here I am ... I have come to do your will." When the Son
of God compressed Himself into a human body, the greatest miracle of
the ages took place. This was the substance; all else was shadow. The
substance - the Incarnation - superseded all previous manifestations
of God and now holds the field as the greatest and indeed the only
real revelation. No one would ever have thought that the God of the
universe would take a body and become man in order to redeem
humankind. A love like that does not exist in the categories of
philosophy. But seeing is believing. Every time we write the date we
affirm it: God has been here on our planet in the form of a man.
PRAYER:
O God, what can I say? I am speechless at the wonder of it. I am in
the dust. But that is where I find You - in the dust ready to receive
me and lift me to the highest heaven. O gracious condescension. I am
Yours forever. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Eph. 2:14-18; Col. 2:13-15; Heb. 7:18; 8:13
1. What has Christ abolished?
2. How is the law described?
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