February 19

We live in a society that is very “celebrity conscious.” We lavish our “heroes” with adulation—and with money. Football stars, basketball players, actors and actresses make more money for one performance than the average person will accrue in a lifetime. They live more lavishly than the rulers of by-gone empires.

We approach them, if by some happenstance our worlds touch for a brief moment, with the deference we should accord only to God Himself! And, the probability is that we will be brushed aside, at best we may be accorded an autograph. Not so with the Lord of Creation. He invites us to, “Come boldly to the Throne of Grace and there find help in time of need.”

He doesn’t require us to come with timorous or faltering step into His presence. He doesn’t expect us to grovel before Him. Jesus doesn’t have His body guards usher us away from Him. Instead of having us unceremoniously escorted out of His presence, He invites us into His inner sanctum. He tells us we may boldly enter His Throne Room where His majesty dwells!

And when we have been received—not as an autograph seeker but as a beloved child—we are further accorded the assurance that when we have placed the supplication of our heart before Him, He will extend to us the help we need! We approach Him with the same confidence a child enters a loving father’s presence—confidence that we will be lovingly received and promptly helped.