Terrific Translating

When my girls were little, people had a hard time understanding my youngest daughter Charlotte. She was young, shy, and her speech hadn’t fully developed. Her immediate family could understand her, but people outside our family had difficulty.

Her older sister Samantha did a lot of translating for her. When Charlotte would talk and the folks around her didn’t understand her, Samantha would repeat what she said. Her older sister wasn’t asked to do this, she did it naturally, and never thought twice. She did it so her sister’s voice would be heard, and her questions would be answered. She did it because she loved her sister.

This reminds me of how Jesus is our mediator, our intercessor. He takes our prayers and purifies them for our Holy God. He translates them on our behalf, just like my daughter translated for her younger sister. Jesus does that for us. He does this for the same reason, He loves us. Jesus wants our voices and prayers lifted up to our Heavenly Father.

What a blessing it is to have Jesus as our mediator. We don’t even have to ask, He automatically fulfills this role. How do I know this? “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5)

Thankfully we have Jesus to clean up our prayers and make them worthy of our amazing God.