God's Son, Our Intercessor
Job 9:33Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman recently told this story of one of his friends who was a boyhood companion of Robert Lincoln. He entered the Civil War and went to the front.
When Robert Lincoln found that he was a private soldier, he said to a friend: “Write, and tell him to write to me, and I will intercede with father, and get him something better.”
The young soldier said: “I never took advantage of the offer, but you do not know what a comfort it was to me. Often after a weary march I would throw myself on the ground and say: ‘If it becomes beyond human endurance, I can write to Bob Lincoln and get relief; and I would rather have his intercession than that of the cabinet, because he is a son.’”
Every true Christian knows that he has the best friend possible at the court of Heaven in the Son of God, who ever liveth to make intercession for us.
— L. A. Bauks