In Jesus we have someone who beats the drum of justice and mercy for us. When God listens to our prayers, and the prayers of millions of God’s people around the world, those prayers are filtered through the sound of the drumbeat of Jesus filling the throne room of God. When God looks at you, he sees Jesus. When he listens to you, he hears Jesus, saying Father, forgive him. Father, remember her. Father, save them. In you he sees his perfect son, who by dying justifies us, and in being raised to the right hand, can ask God on our behalf—for mercy.
