Hebrews 7:25 tells us that Jesus is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, because He lives forever to intercede. This isn’t a distant doctrine; it is a living reality. Right now, in this very moment, the risen Christ is actively representing you before the Father. Your weakness, your wandering, your wondering—they are all met by His unending, perfect, personal prayer for you.

He Is Able to Save Completely

“Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25). “Completely” means there is no leftover guilt He cannot cover, no stubborn sin He cannot conquer, no future failure He has not already accounted for in His once-for-all sacrifice. Your salvation is not a fragile thing you hold together with your own effort; it is a finished work held together by a living Savior. When you feel like you’re barely hanging on, the good news is that He is not barely hanging on to you.

This is why Scripture can say, “being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6). The same Lord who started the work is the Lord who finishes it. And Jude echoes this when he praises “Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—” (Jude 24). Your confidence isn’t in how strong your grip on Jesus is today; it’s in how strong His grip on you has always been.

He Always Lives to Intercede

Jesus does not simply remember you; He represents you. “Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God and is interceding for us” (Romans 8:34). Every accusation that rises against you—whether from Satan, from others, or from your own heart—meets the living testimony of His blood and righteousness. Your Savior is not silent in heaven; His very presence there is a continual declaration that your debt is paid.

When you fall, He does not throw up His hands in frustration; He shows His hands, once pierced for you. “But if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One” (1 John 2:1). Think of it: while you sleep, He prays; while you stumble, He pleads; while you wait, He works. Your prayer life rises and falls, but His does not. You may forget to pray, but He never forgets to pray for you.

Draw Near and Stay Near

Notice who enjoys this kind of complete salvation: “those who draw near to God through Him” (Hebrews 7:25). Access is wide open, but it is only through Jesus. He said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Drawing near is not about being worthy; it is about coming honestly, humbly, and repeatedly through the only door God has opened—His Son.

Because your High Priest is already in heaven for you, the invitation is bold and beautiful: “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Today, drawing near might look like confessing a sin you’ve been hiding, bringing a burden you’ve been carrying alone, or interceding for someone else the way Christ intercedes for you. The One who always lives to pray for you is calling you to live a little more each day in prayerful dependence on Him.

Lord Jesus, thank You that You are able to save completely and that You never stop praying for me; today, help me to draw near, stay near, and join You in praying boldly for others.

I do not mind telling you that within me I find the Easter message and the reality of the Resurrection more beautiful and glorious than the Christmas scene. Christmas tells us that Jesus was born; that He was born for the humiliation of suffering and death and atonement. But Easter is the radiant and glory-filled celebration of Christ's mighty triumph over the grave and death and hell! When Easter comes, our voices are raised in the triumphant chorus: The three sad days had quickly sped; He rises glorious from the dead! There is the real beauty! This is more than the beauty of color; more than the beauty of outline or form; more than the beauty of physical proportion. In the living Christ is the perfection of all beauty; and because He lives, we too shall live in the presence of His beauty and the beauties of heaven, forever!

I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me. - Psalm 40:17

The joy and triumph which ring through the words of Christ, "I am not alone," suggest the sufficiency of that Divine presence for all the needs of the heart. Christ felt that He was not alone, that the dreariness of the solitude had passed away, because the Father’s presence was enough. He was the loneliest of men, and He was also the most rich in sufficient companionship - the most sad and the most happy. So the surface and the depth of His life present the sharpest contrasts. Opposites meet in Him: He was the Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief, "and yet God anointed Him with the oil of gladness above His fellows." He was "sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making the world rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." For Him the Father’s presence was sunshine in the darkness; summer in the depth of winter; life in the very jaws of death.

And for you and me the Father’s presence will be enough, too. It will not be exactly the same thing as the society and communion of dear ones, and there may be a sense of loss and pain with us, as there was with Him, but yet the blessed consciousness of God’s presence will satisfy our hearts. So, whether we have to walk a lonely road, or are compassed by lovers and friends, and yet feel often much apart, let us lift our hearts to God in Christ, and He will come to be our companion. God and you will make society enough for you. " Thou hast made me exceeding glad through Thy countenance."

We never know the blessedness of God’s presence till we have felt the loneliness of life. " I was left alone and I saw this great vision." We must detach ourselves from earth, and shut our doors about us before we can have the vision of God. Solitude is the mother of all great and holy thoughts. To enter into thyself, said one of the mystics, is to ascend to Heaven. He who is at all times alone, said another, is worthy of God who is then present. Prayer is the flight of the lonely soul to the alone God.

The blessed communion between Christ and God, the Man Christ Jesus and His Divine Father, was broken once. " My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Broken once - wherefore? How? Because He, in the depth of His love, in the might of His sympathy, in the reality of His union with mankind, so identified Himself with us, in our sins and in their punishment, that the last issue of sin fell upon Him, and He tasted the extremes! bitterness of the cup, in the separation from God, which is eternal death. That was for us and for all men. " I could wish myself accursed," said the servant. The Master did more than wish; He made Himself a curse for us. He bore that last, most awful, consequence of sin, and was left alone, bereft of God, in the darkness, that we might never lose the light of God’s face, nor the strength and joy of our Father’s presence.

Let us bow with hushed and grateful spirits before that miracle and mystery of love, and yield ourselves to Him. Trusting to Him, we shall never be solitary any more, for He hath said, " Lo! I am with you always."