Crown Him

DEVOTION HEBREWS CROWN HIM Heb 2:5-8 5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But there is a place where someone has testified: "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor 8 and put everything under his feet." NIV We know this is all about Jesus, and that although it is true that he came as a man, which is a little lower than angels in the sense of power and abilities, Jesus is still Jesus, the one who created the foundations of the earth. He is the one who was since the beginning and will be there forever. We know the only reason the Father sent the Son as a man was to be that perfect sacrifice for our sins, so that in doing what he did, God reconciled himself to his creation. He re-established the right relationship between himself and us. Yes, we have to accept that, we have to decide to acknowledge what he did for us. Yes we have to make the choice to become born again. But it is all God, he did everything, He came as a man to pay the price for sin, he came to satisfy His own justice, because we could and never will be able to on our own. Yet it is Jesus who has been crowned with glory and honor. The one who came and gave it all has all the glory and honor. We have no one ounce of glory and honor in us, but He has it all. The Father has lifted up the Son and placed everything under his feet. Yet what is incredible and almost beyond understanding is that we are co-heirs, joint heirs with Jesus. Whatever He inherited from the Father we have also. If we are in Christ all that is His is ours. This is why is it said that those of us who are in Christ shall return during the millennium and rule and reign with Him. This is why He says that we shall being given a white robe, be able to eat from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God, be given a new name, we will never be harmed by the second death, we will have authority over the nations. We will also be given the morning star and Jesus will acknowledge our name before the Father and we will be given the right to sit in the throne with Jesus at the right hand of the Father. This is all because of Jesus. Crown Him with glory and honor.