In the ancient Jewish worship, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies once a year…with blood…to offer for sin — his own and that of the people.

Today, as in right now, Christ is my high priest:

“For Christ is…entered…into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Hebrews 9:24).

Right now, Christ is before God.

For me!

So it makes lots of sense for me to “serve the living God” (Hebrews 9:14).

Just look what He did for me!

Just look what He is doing for me!

This blog is about panting after God as a hart pants after water. It is about knowing God. And it came about because of my knowledge that I don’t know and pant after God as I ought, and as I wish I would.

So what am I to make of this verse in Hebrews 8?

“And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest” (11).

A day is coming when I will know God as He wishes me to know Him.

Wow! That is so much richer a knowledge than knowing Him only as I wish to know Him. My desire is shallow and finite; His, deep and infinite. And I get to know Him that way!

In the meantime, I must continue panting after Him.

In the meantime, I need neighbors and brothers to teach me, “Know the Lord.”

(And I need to teach my neighbors and brothers that very same thing.)