Whenever Charlie Brown, the lovable oaf of Charles Schultz' creation, heard his mother or his teacher or really any adult character attempting to communicate with him, all the audience would hear would be a mix of garbled gibberish and unremarkable, indistinct tones. This rendering the communication pathways useless, messages left unsent, and the relaying parties separated by the barriers of interface.
This seems a good analogy to the lines of communication between God and man, having become impotent due to sin and disbelief. As a result, God's communication to man is hampered just as man's communication to God is similarly hindered. The net effect of such confusion of language is that man cannot receive the communication of God because of the sin of man, and God cannot hear man due to the same thing.
To overcome this, an interpreter is needed to mediate and correct the deficiencies of communication that act as a barrier to separate God and man. But praise be to God who in His good pleasure sent His Son Jesus to die as a substitutionary atonement for sin in order to reckon the sin of mankind, and thus repair the broken linees and redeem mankind in regeneration.
Although salvation is often seen as a forensic event, let us not forget that God has made a way for us to truly communicate with Him. Now, through faith in Christ, humans can not only hear God when He speaks by way of the Holy Spirit resting within them, but even more so they can speak to God in faith and have assurance that God hears fully. Let us then take joy that God has made a way, mediating for us through His own torn flesh and shed blood, and redeeming us!
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