day no. 14,655: road signs

1 Samuel 2:25a
If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?

If a man sins against another man, it makes sense that they can appeal to God to mediate their concerns. He can stand over them both and adjudicate the matter. But if a man sins against God, who can stand between them? Who is big enough to stand over both parties and render a mediation that isn't entirely lopsided? 

Enter Jesus. Who can stand between God and man? The God-man. 

He not only can represent both parties faithfully, but He has the authority and ability to produce the necessary means of peace between the two. If not for Him, there could be no peace. There is nothing a man could do to meet the requirements of peace or restoration. 

How can a man on borrowed time, breathing borrowed breath, produce anything novel to make restitution? 

He can't. So God did. 

Praise God for our Mediator, Jesus and for arrows like this along the roadside of the Old Testament pointing us ahead to the fulfillment of God's gracious will. 

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus