Year 6, Day 105: Hebrews 1

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Discipleship Focus: Identity, Calling

• Calling asks whether or not God has called the person to the particular work at this point in their life.
• Identity: Our true identity comes from the Father.  Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.

As we are called to imitate Christ, we should take a good long look at this chapter.  Yes, this chapter is all about the supremacy of Christ.  But this chapter is also a great example in how identity can translate into calling.  If we are doing it right, our calling should naturally come out of our identity in God.  Let’s look at Christ and see how this works:

• Jesus Christ is the last and final voice of God.  God spoke creation into existence at the beginning of the world.  Now God has sent the last, final, and ultimate voice into the world.  He sent Jesus to be the true unveiling of God.  That is His identity.  How does this translate into calling?  Jesus’ identity as the last and greatest voice of God allows Him to speak final words of repentance, justice, grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
• Jesus Christ is also the Heir.  How does this translate to calling?  If Jesus Christ is the heir, then everything of the Father will be the Son’s.  Everything will be under the dominion of Christ.  Jesus lived His life as though everything was under His dominion.
• The glory of God radiates from Him.  To radiate means that something comes from within.  To radiate can also mean to reflect something external.  How does Christ’s calling reflect this identity?  He certainly reflected God’s glory to the world.  He also had God’s glory within Him as it shone out of Him.
• Jesus is the one who sustains creation.  The only reason creation continues and doesn’t literally tear itself apart is because Christ has become a part of it.  How does this identity translate into calling?  Christ literally sustains us.  He is the only reason that we can continue to exist as we are.  We can be in relationship with each other because Christ came as was in relationship with us.
• Christ is the Redeemer.  He is the one who purifies creation from its sinful nature. I think it is pretty easy how Jesus put this identity into calling.  He is the one who laid down His life so that others might live.
• Finally, we see that Christ is king.  How does this identity translate into calling?  Jesus taught with the authority of a king.  People were amazed at His authority.  Furthermore, Christ has sat down at the right hand of God.  Christ has ascended to be with the Father to the place that was prepared for Him.  He has proven His superiority – superiority over death and even the angels!  There is none like Him!

We can learn much from Christ.  All that He did came out of His identity in the Father.  We should strive to have the same said about us.

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