The Mediator

I was struck by this excerpt from Job today:

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap;
Yet shalt though plunge me in the pit, and mine own clothes shall loathe me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in court.
Neither is there any mediator betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Let him take his rod away from me and let not dread of him terrify me:
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
9:30-35; KJV

I was struck, as I have been recently in other ways, at the true might of God. Job later says that he would demonstrate his depravity simply by opening his mouth to God. This reminds me that to look upon God would destroy us and it overwhelms with relief me that we do have a mediator in Christ. We may approach God only because Jesus is our representative. How much greater this blessing is when seen in light of our iniquity before the Father.