Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, August 19 (16:26-27)
“At that day ye shall ask in My name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God” ―John 16:26, 27.
HOW terribly do they dishonor God who tell us that angels, apostles, the mother of Jesus, or other eminent saints, are necessary as go-betweens in order that we may receive of the Father! Even our Lord Jesus himself tells us the Father gives out of the love of His own heart. It is not necessary to have some one as a special pleader on our behalf. “The Father Himself loveth you.” How blessed to realize this, and so to go to Him with implicit confidence, assured that He delights to do for us everything that is consistent with His holy purpose and therefore which will be for our good.
—M. Colley.