Approachable?
One of my favorite actors is Tom Hanks. Rarely, if ever, would you find someone disagreeing that he his one of the greatest @ his craft.
Road to Perdition is a movie that, in part, captures the relationship between a father and son. Tom Hanks plays a father who works as a hit man for the mofia. His son has a sense of mystery, wonder, and awe about his father.
Didn’t you growing up?
I often wondered what he did all day, you know - work. What’s it like to be an adult, I’d ask myself. Some of the times I would want to ask what he did but often I really wouldn’t care as long as he came home and we could hang out.
There is a Scene in the movie when the boy is asked by his mother to tell his father dinner is ready.
The boy showed an emotion of fear. His father just returned from work and was changing. The boy walked slowly up the stairs. The wooden stairs probably gave the father fair warning. The boy seemed to take forever to get to his father’s bedroom door.
The door was slightly opened. The boy peered into the room and at the same moment Tom Hanks turns around and makes eye contact with his son. The Son sees him putting away a gun.
He quickly tells his father it’s time for dinner and runs downstairs.
Is your father approachable?
Today in Rhythm (our jr. sen high class ) we talked about how our past will haunt us if we don’t address it. One of the students said, we don’t need to talk to God because he knows everything.
I asked them if he knows he forgives you and you know he cares than why not talk to him?
silence.
It was a good learning moment for everyone in the room, especially me.
Is the paradox true - Do we yearn for a father but yet find God the Father unapproachable?
Hebrews 10:19-22
Therefore, brothers since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God will a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Sometime during the fall Sept-Oct Yom Kippur is celebrated - Day of Atonement.
Once a year the High Priest would office a sacrifice to God. He would take the blood from the slain animal and throw it on the alter in an attempt to appease God. The High Priest was the only qualified person to perform this task. If he had unsettled sin he too would struck down by God and would have to be pulled out by a rope that was tied around his ankle. There was also the curtain that was believed to be the presence of God.
My like the slightly cracked door in Road to Perdition.
This text says because Jesus came and was murdered on the cross we no longer need to practice Yom Kippur - Jesus is our atoning sacrifice and Jesus’ torn body rips, shreds, drops, reveals the curtain that is between us and the Father.
Jesus gives us full access to God.
By way to the cross, God is approachable.
Yet I wonder if the paradox still exists - Do you still approach the Father even though we know Jesus has made away for us to approach him.
if not.
why does it seem so risky and at times intimidating?
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