The complex annual ceremony of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16) was a symbolic representation of what Jesus did. He rose from the dead having paid the full price for our sin and ascended to heaven to perpetually plead our case before God. And the case that Jesus pleads is this: “I have earned for this person the full unlimited favour of God. So let nothing hinder this person from being blessed with every spiritual blessing.” This is what the author of Hebrews means when he says that “Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance”. God really wants you to receive something from him. Jesus paid for your guilt to make this gift available to you. And his gift is the gift of the Holy Spirit. It remains for you now to receive. You can receive new life if you are willing to forsake the old life. You cannot have both the new and old, for the one negates the other. God calls you to come with those old worldly ambitions and to give them over to him to replace them with something far better. He wants to empower you with a new heart and new desires. He wants to lift off you the onerous yoke of worldly striving and release you into the life you were made for. True liberation occurs when your desires match your God given destiny. This is the work of the Holy Spirit: to bring your desires into alignment with God’s purpose.
Ask God to align your desires with what he wants to give you.
Read Hebrews 9
