Year 9, Day 106: Hebrews 2

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Hebrews 2 takes the focus and places it where it solidly belongs.  Hebrews 2 is about Jesus Christ.  As the author says, he is the founder of salvation.  He was made perfect through suffering.

Pause for a moment there.  He was made perfect through suffering.  I know many people who strive for perfection.  Teaching teenagers, I know many who accept nothing less than perfection!  Yet, Christ was made perfect through suffering.  How badly do we want perfection if it is attained through suffering?  How many human beings say they long for perfection, but then can’t manage to go through the suffering when it comes?  Is it possible that we give lip service to what we want without having the courage to go and get it?  While that may be an overgeneralization, it is worth considering that anytime we desire to strive after perfection that there will b a little suffering along the way.

Through Jesus’ suffering, He also helped bring us to the source of power.  Jesus came from the Father, and the Father is the power.  Through His death He brings us to the Father.  Prior to His sacrifice, our sin kept us from God.  Our sin was a barrier that prevented us from approaching the throne of God.  Through the death of Christ, though, our sins are atoned.  We can know forgiveness.  We can know the Lord and His grace.

The author tells us that Christ did just that.  Through His death – as proved by the resurrection – Jesus defeats our greatest adversary, the Devil.  The Devil accuses us before God.  The Devil accuses us to ourselves.  He seeks to defeat us and remind us that we are not worthy of life, and certainly not worthy of the presence of God.  In sacrifice for our sake, Jesus defeats the accusation of the Devil.  He defeats death, showing us that God loves us enough to die for our sake so that we might know the presence of God, know life in Him, and know the source of power.

Jesus is the one who does all this.  He was made lower than the angels for our sake.  He died for our sake.  He took on death and the Devil so that we wouldn’t have to.

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