A "Daysman" Reaching to His Father

As great as our God is, He cannot reach across the great chasm all the way to sinful man. Neither can man — though He rises to the greatest possible height — reach God. At this one basic point all religions of the world are helpless and without one ounce of spiritual hope. This is the dividing line that leaves Christianity at the pinnacle. It was a perfect man swallowed up with his sorrows that bellowed out, “Neither is there any DAYSMAN between us, that might lay his hand upon us both” (Job 9:33). But, that was before “Emmanuel” was born of a woman and died on a cross.

The depravity of the human family is hardly a subject of choice for our sociological world. The great accomplishments in positive thinking and artistic living have left the inner man refusing to see his moral bankruptcy. We have learned in our foolishness to speak a language of such guiltlessness that sin is nothing but a disease or negative thinking. To speak of sin or immorality is considered uneducated. To need a spiritual crutch is a sign of terrible weakness.

This kind of high class living works well when in perfect health and awash in pleasure and money, but it disappears as life enters a crisis stage. Sadly, the multitudes are so entrenched in their godless thinking that His redemptive powers cannot be considered. The answers they seek are the same empty platitudes as the problems. What a hopeless way to reach one’s closing stage of life.

The saintly life may be considered outdated, but it is certainly not outclassed. The word independent is not even in the Authorized Bible, not one time. God created us to need Him, to need our family, and to need one another; but above all is the fact that we need Him. But, God is out of reach. Our sins have placed a great gulf between His holiness and the created family. Even when we reach for Him, He is of a divine class far superior to our fallen state.

That’s where the God of The Holy Bible had a plan even before the fateful moment in a garden paradise. Man was His chosen creation, just a little lower than His Angels. The Father’s family was divinely created and of a class that no angel, seraphim, or cherubim could redeem. It had to be redemption in the Divine class and there was only one Son of God. This Divine Son had a perfect right to the Father’s presence, so He, indeed, could hold the Father’s hand.

An unspoiled virgin was chosen, in whom the Divine could indwell without the stain of human blood. That Son was eternal and human at the same moment. In His Son of Man’s body He could hold the hand of the human race without turning loose of the hand of God. Even as He hung on the cross, His reach was complete. When He declared, “It Is Finished,” He was grasping the hands of fallen man and lifting those hands to touch God. It was a mighty moment when the DAYSMAN of Job’s plea provided the perfect fellowship of full redemption.

Prayer was wonderful in the First Testament, but it is dynamic in the New Covenant. Men, like Daniel or Elijah, wrought great victories for their God. There were also many that suffered and never knew the triumph of their faith. “And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:36-40).

The unparalleled victory of the Cross and the Resurrection is presently enthroned at the Father’s right hand. He is our perfect victory and our High Priest and advocate. When Stephen was being stoned, He stood up as his DAYSMAN and He never gets tired of interceding for His saints. The Bible states, “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). This touch He feels is as real as holding our hands while He reaches to His Father’s Hand beside Him on the Throne.

There is no truth in Scripture that triumphs this revelation. He is our DAYSMAN. There is no gulf of sin or human dilemma that is too wide for that hand to reach across. When sin is confessed, forsaken, and cleansed by His blood; the “Mighty Redeemer” draws that soul into the fellowship and family of God. Prayer becomes powerful, worship is a fellowship of joy, and the Holy Bible becomes Divine words that sanctify and cleanse. We do not need to reach into the realm of the Heavenly City because His Hand reaches all the way for us. Actually, He has, “….raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6).