"The Veil That Was Torn In Two"

"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." (Romans 10:1-4) As you may have gathered, I was not very long yesterday, mostly because I was tired and worn out from a long day's journey. But, I still needed to express something that was in my heart; and that was how we can let God's law, or the law, get in between our fellowship with God; and consequently, between our ability to know the liberty that we have in Jesus Christ. Paul's statement above, taken from Romans ten, is to express his hope for his fellow countrymen; although he is writing to Rome, he starts out in chapter nine describing the people of Israel and their difficulty in accepting the salvation that has been given them. Much the same difficulty can take place in our own hearts, especially if we have been raised in a family that believed in the Ten Commandments as the law of God, but did not express the righteousness of God, which is only available through Jesus Christ. How can that which is not holy have fellowship with that which is holy? There is only One Way; Jesus Christ and the justification that comes through faith in Him and what He has done. This is only made possible through knowledge of the truth; something which must be given to someone by the Holy Spirit. There is another veil that can come between us and fellowship with God, and it involves those things which we think that we know, but they have made us blind to the truth. Not that we just need to open our eyes in order to see them, but that we are blind and must be given sight to see them; something that can only happen through the power of God, just as Jesus, while He was here gave sight to the blind, so must we be given sight to see the truth. That is what our weapons are for this war that we are in: prayer and knowledge of the truth! To be able to pray for those that need sight to see the truth, and to know what it looks like when they have received it... "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8:36)