MELCHIZEDEK

The leading of God’s Spirit need not be always fun.

At times it can be horrible, if God’s will must be done.

Just take a look at Jesus. I bet He wasn’t thrilled,

To go out to the wilderness where all would be fulfilled.

I’m glad that it was Jesus because He got it right.

If it was me the Lord had sent – then day would still be night.

But Jesus was exceptional. He wasn’t just a man.

He was the Lord incarnate. To carry out God’s plan.

For forty days and forty nights He struggled in the heat.

He only had one purpose, the devil must be beat.

And when at last He faced him, the outcome was assured.

And all of Satan’s promptings were absolutely cured.

Throughout His lengthy sojourn, our Saviour was tried.

But every trick that Satan pulled was spotted and denied.

He didn’t find it easy. But still He persevered.

He had to live a sin free life. The way that Satan feared.

We know that He succeeded; that He was crucified.

But even in His agony, His God was not denied.

Beyond imagination is what the Lord went through.

Far more than any other man could possibly do.

His Father had a purpose. To make a new High Priest.

Not a son of Levi, but a line that never ceased.

He had no fancy clothing. In fact you’d never know,

That He was designated to make God’s Kingdom grow.

This wasn’t just some Mickey Mouse who could attract a crowd.

He didn’t ‘come to be a King; such things were not allowed.

He came as any other man. No fanfare and no fuss.

He lived a life in all respects the same as one of us.

But He was God in overalls. Unnoticed and unseen;

Concealed within a body, like yours and mine have been.

He suffered the temptations that you and I have faced

But with the one distinction that all of us have chased.

Not once in all His lifetime did He ever fall in sin;

A glorious conclusion to the problems we are in.

This is our Melchizedek, a Priest and King of old.

Who came and spoke to Abraham of things that are untold.

A Priest who had no forebears and was utterly unknown,

Who sat upon an unknown seat and on an unknown throne.

This was the type of High Priest Whom Jesus came to be.

Who’d live and reign with Father God for all eternity.

Jim Strickland – written Thursday, 07 July 2011