CHRIST our HIGH PRIEST: “We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses” (Heb 4:15). The Lord Jesus is “a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man” (8:2). “He always lives to make intercession” for His own people and so is “able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him” (7:25). His unceasing care is devoted to those who belong to Him, and in the heavenly temple their case is constantly presented by the great Mediator and Intercessor. As Priest, He also sympathizes with His brethren in their infirmities. In all their trials and difficulties, He pours out His wealth of loving and understanding sympathy. Here is no remote Deity with merely an academic omniscience, but a living, loving Lord who knows and understands life’s burdens and tribulations. In addition, He sustains and strengthens through the rigors of life, ever ready to furnish “grace to help in time of need.” —F.E. Tatford