One of the great benefits of salvation is access to the very throne of God. In this life we may not be able to call a world ruler, have a meeting with a prime minister or a president but you can still have an audience with the Creator of the universe.

In this life unless you are very close to those in power chances are you will never get to meet them or truly be heard by them. We might see their pictures, see them on TV and maybe even see them in person but in most cases they will not even know we exist.

But God has never wanted this to be our relationship with Him. God did not want for those who believed in Jesus to be far away, distant or for Him to be a stranger to us.

This is why Jesus created a new way, a way that did not exist before He paid for our sins on the cross. “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,” Hebrews 10:19-20

I now can enter the presence of God. It is not by anything I have done or any good deed I may have performed but by what Jesus did for me. God is still God, he did not become less, it was just that we were lifted up from our sins and made acceptable in His presence.

“Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

About the Image: I was trying to capture entering the presence of God but trying not to loose the "AWE" (I think that is the correct term, English second language) of having an audience before the Creator of the Universe. The idea came from my wife as I was working on another image in Bryce that I was just not happy with. All she said was “You know, to me this looks like the sea of glass in Heaven” and then the image took a life of it’s own.

God bless and enjoy.
Hope and Freedom Ministries
Aldo R Perez