Today's Passage:  Hebrews 7

We become easily attached to that with which we are most familiar. Perhaps you know someone (or maybe you are that someone) who would prefer to go through seven steps you could do in your sleep rather than break that routine and try a different method of only two steps.

Then, when we do make those changes we are very often challenged in them. We wonder if we have made the right decision and we are tempted to return to the old method, even if we now recognize it as inferior.

This is where the writer of Hebrews found his audience: Jewish believers who were tempted to return to Judaism due to the persecutions they were facing and the acceptance of well-established rituals. In this chapter, the supremacy of Christ as the perfect High Priest reminds them they are far better off in the new faith than they would be returning to old traditions.

To have a High Priest that doesn't need to focus on sacrificing for His own sins just to be able to represent his people is a far better priesthood than the one it replaced. While it is easy, let us not take for granted the wonderful gift of constant intercession our High Priest, Jesus Christ, makes for us. While I am weak, He is strong. And even when I am not in my comfort zone, He is there to take me to the next, better place.