Why Intercession?

Why is Jesus interceding before God on our behalf when God is not angry toward us? I have learned clearly that God feels the same toward us as Jesus does, with complete and unchangeable compassion, mercy and love. The problem is all on the human side rooted in the lies we believe about God. So, if Jesus and God are identical in thought and perspective and motives, why is there anything to plead? It seems you only approach someone to intercede when there is at least some difference between your thinking and the person you are talking to. It seems more logical that all of the pleading would be directed toward the parties that contain the ideas that need changing. If God does not need His mind or heart changed toward us then what is the pleading for?

Maybe the desires of God that need intercession of a mediator are actually opposite of what we usually have assumed. Maybe Jesus is an intercessor because of His unique position as the only human being who fully understands and has experienced th “wrath” of God. Once we understand clearly that God's wrath is actually God's overwhelming passionate love that is lethal when exposed to sin, it becomes a little clearer why we need an intercessor.

Jesus may be pleading with God to restrain Himself from revealing more of His passion than we are capable of surviving. The very thing that we need to draw us to God and toward repentance – a revelation of His heart of infinite love – is also the very same thing that creates hell for us when encountered under the lying filters of sin. “Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.” (Lam. 3:22)