High Priest

As High Priest we see Him in heaven, as the One who is qualified to sustain us in the circumstances of faith. We also see Him as the One who lives within the veil, and is touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
His advocacy (1 John 2:1) is another thing; it is the grace which restores our souls if we wander and sin. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." There, it is the Lord as restorer of our souls. He brings the soul back into communion of the relationship into which we have been brought.
His high priestly service is another thing. It is His sustaining us in the midst of difficulties, and we are exhorted to consider Him in this capacity. In Heb. 5 the priesthood is the position to which He has been called, and there He sustains us. How precious that makes the Lord to us; He who has felt what we feel, has entered into all that we pass through. Do we know what it is to consider the Lord in that way? It is a wonderfully sustaining truth in sorrow to know Him thus, who lives in sympathizing love for us.