The last few days at work we have been troubleshooting an issue with a pilot-side window heat failure. I spent all day yesterday gaining access to the Window Temperature Control boxes underneath the floor. This involves removing carpet, pieces of the main entryway door, tracks for sliding doors and other various pieces of furniture in the cabin. Once I got to the electrical boxes, I could check the wiring between the boxes and the window. All of the wiring was good, so as I went home last night we had ordered a new Control box to install to see if that fixed the problem.
First thing this morning I put the new box in and it didn’t fix the issue. The only thing left that could be broken was the window itself…but the installation of a new window is a huge process….a process you want to be extremely sure of before you start. So here is what we did……we built a test harness. This harness was about 25 feet long and it allowed us to hook one end up to the connections inside the plane and hook the other end up to a known good window that we had ordered. Once complete, we turned on the window heat and our failure message went away. We made what you could call a “go between.”
When I went for my walk at lunch I was just about finished making the harness, but it really got me thinking about my life. What do I have that could be considered a “go between?” And then it hit me……Jesus Christ is my go between. I’m currently reading my Bible, from the beginning, and it amazes me how little faith and trust that the Israelites had in God. They angered him on so many occasions. But when you look back at the “requirements” to get to heaven back then, it was impossible to hit the mark every time and in every situation. I could just imagine how frustrated God was. As a father myself, I get so frustrated with the boys sometimes when they just won’t listen, or do what is asked of them. So what did God do? It was in His plan the whole time, but He sent His son Jesus down to wash away our sins, to be our umbrella, our veil so that God only saw what was pure in us. He sent a “go between.”
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him (John 14:6-7.)” That one statement alone, from Jesus, makes me ecstatic…..and it should make you ecstatic too. Do you really realize what God did? He sacrificed his son……on a cross…..to die…..so that we may live. We now have the ability to have a one on one relationship with Jesus and God, that wasn’t possible before Jesus came to Earth.
Jesus also said, when foretelling of His death, “He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me (John 12:44-50.)”
Did you pay close attention and count how many times in those few verses that Jesus said God “sent me?” 3 times He said God sent him to Earth. God has always known that we couldn’t get through life on our own. We would never be good enough to get to heaven by deeds and works alone. Our eternal life comes from the true belief and acceptance that Jesus Christ lived, died on the cross for our sins, and was resurrected from the grave……..to beat the devil and unlock the gates of hell.
So when you are having a rough day, an awkward time in your life, or even when things are going awesome…..know that Jesus is there. He walks beside us holding our hand in the best of times, and He carries us in the worst of times. He is the ultimate “go between.”
I pray for all of you that you truly know Jesus Christ….that you truly have a relationship with him and you can talk, and walk, and celebrate, and morn, and praise Him all hours of your days. I pray that you can use Him as your “go between” to troubleshoot your life.
Tetelestai 