Meeting With God

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

MEETING WITH GOD

Heb 7:1-3

7:1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means "king of righteousness"; then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace." 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest forever.

NIV

Volumes have been written about this name which is only mentioned three times in the whole Bible and of nothing is really known about the man who owned it. But could it be that Abraham actually met with God himself? Who else is the King of Peace? Who else has no Father and no Mother? Who else is without genealogy, without the beginning of days of end of life? Yes it is true that Jesus is like that, but the writer here was inspired to say he was like the Son of God, not the Son of God. So how does this apply to us today? Is it possible that we could run into God on our way back from defending some foe and get a blessing? Most of us do not go off to defeat some king in the first place. Yet we certainly can have a battle with the enemy of our soul. If we return with a victory it is because of the blessings of God in our lives. It is not humanely possible to win any battle against the devil without having God at our side in the first place. Those who refuse to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior are already prisoners of the devil. They are in chains, in bondage by him, and thus he need not war against them. But we have been freed from that bondage, freed from his chains, and have stood our ground declaring our allegiance to Christ. The devil thus is at war with us and is making every effort to attack us, strike us down, slap us back in his chains of despair, his dungeon of darkness, his deception of sin. And so we battle, we stand our ground wearing the very armor of God, and we win each and every battle, striking down his attacks, and defeating him. That is when we meet the King of righteousness, the King of Peace. God is pleased we have won the battle and He blesses us over and over again. What kind of blessing each of us receive many be different, but it is from God himself and we know it will be good. True, Abraham offered him a tenth of his spoils, which was a custom of that time, it was not however a part of the Mosaic Law, either is it a part of Christ’s teaching. When we meet God we cannot give him but a tenth of the spoils for we are the prize of victory and thus we must offer God one hundred percent of the spoils of this victory, we must offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, all of us, every bit of us to the King of righteousness, the King of peace. What less could we give when we meet with God?