Thursday, August 11, 2011

We have a great high priest (Hebrews 4:12-16)

  In 1892 Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Warsaw wrote a letter urging Polish young people not to become discouraged or frustrated in their quest for change.
He told them he could sympathize with them because he himself was beaten by police when he was young and militant like them.
The archbishop also said that his own father was punished severely for participating in a public protest against the Nazis.
Just as Archbishop Glemp understood the pain and the frustration that Polish youth felt, so Jesus understands our pain and frustration. Jesus was someone who was like us in all things but sin.