Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.I've heard this verse since I was a little child, but don't think I've ever really understood it. I always took it as, "we're saved, so we can go to God any time since we're now his kids." But given my own stoic relationship with my dad, I've come to understand how flawed my view of God is, even if I still have trouble breaking that image.
We are called to draw near with confidence, because we have been made right by Jesus; that much is true from my childhood understanding. But I think I replaced confidence with fearful reverence. I pictured us coming quietly into the vicinity and waiting to be recognized in God's timing; doing more than that would be changing confidence to brashness. Now, I wonder if I've felt that God was too busy to do much for insignificant me, and therefore I was down on the priority list somewhere that got occasional attention, but was mostly left to his own devices unless it was an emergency. In that circumstance, there's not much room for mercy or grace; you're probably getting in the way of something important.
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