The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “The Throne of Grace.” Dr. Charles Stanley: If I should ask you, “Why don’t you think you spend more time praying and talking to God?” I wonder how you would answer that.
Or if I should ask, why is not your intimacy, your relationship with Him more intimate and why is it not more meaningful and more rewarding than it is? Well, there may be lots of reasons, but I think that one of the primary reasons is we don’t know Him, we don’t understand Him, and when we talk about coming to Him in prayer, how do you visualize that? What do you think about when you talk about coming to God in prayer and talking with Him? And when the Bible talks about the throne of God, what do you think about?
You think about some–something way out yonder somewhere in this ethereal blue and this–somebody is sitting on this throne? What do you think about when the Bible talks about coming to the throne of grace? Well, I believe if you and I understood who God is and what He is really like and if we understood what it meant to really come to Him, we would come to Him far more often.
We would speak with Him more often, our relationship with Him would be far more intimate than it is. We would sense a greater intimacy with Him, a greater joy about Him, a sense of fulfillment, and contentment and strength and power. Our faith would be stronger, our confidence would be greater if we understood who is this God to whom we go and what does He mean when He says we can come to Him in time of trouble and find grace to help in time of need? Well, I want you to turn, if you will, to Hebrews chapter 4 and
the title of this message is “The Throne of Grace,” and it is the throne that all of us at some time or the other, who are believers, oftentimes I certainly hope, come to this throne, and some people who think they are coming to it and getting answers to prayer cannot because the door is closed because of their relationship to God.
So, I want us to look at this passage and see what he says. And if you will begin with me in the 14th verse of the 4th chapter of Hebrews, he says, “Since then,” speaking of Christ, “we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.” Listen to this.
“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.” And this is his way of saying, look, the One you’re speaking to is One who understands where you’ve been, where you are, and the things you’re going to face.
