And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

Mark 15:38

This was no ordinary curtain. Scholars say it measured 60 feet high, 30 feet wide, and four inches thick. It separated the sinful people from our holy God in the Holy of Holies. Once each year, on Yom Kippur, only the High Priest would go behind the curtain to plead with God for forgiveness on behalf of the people. But on that first Good Friday, immediately after Jesus breathed His last, that huge temple curtain was miraculously torn by God Himself from the top to the bottom. Why? God declared though this symbolic event that He was totally satisfied with the life and death of Jesus as a substitute for all sins for all time.

Our journey is now a walk with the living Jesus. With Jesus as our advocate, we carry our petitions of praise, adoration, worries, and pleas for forgiveness to His throne of grace.

Dave Ebeling
Bloomington, IN

Jesus, You are and always will be my advocate with the Father. Thank You! Amen.

Reflect: Imagine the height of the curtain by viewing a building that is 60 feet (six stories) tall.

Read: John 17:1-5 and 1 John 2:1-6