January 23: Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, ...

... and exalted above the heavens.

The old system of sacrifice, with its many animals slaughtered and it many human priests, did not effectively reconcile God and his people. Sin was still there in between them, including the sin of the priests themselves. Jesus offers himself as the one sacrifice, and becomes the one High Priest who is above and beyond all others. He is the reconciler God sends to us, who is without sin himself and who takes upon himself all sin. Holiness himself becomes the bridge.