Job 16:21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!
This was Job yearning for a mediator, a go-between between God and man. Job's longing is answered in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He came and became the middle person for man to be reconciled to God.
The Lord Jesus became our neighbor when He became Man 2000 years ago. He is our fellow, our kin, one like us, in a sense, our neighbor, who lives at Humanity Street like we do. And there on the cross He died for our sins and rose from the dead.
We can commit our case, our soul's salvation to Him, and be assured that God will hear Him. For our neighbor is also God's neighbor, in fact, God's own unique Son.
