ASLC Devotions-Thursday

Hebrews 2:1,8b-9

1Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. 8… As it is, we do not yet see everything
in subjection to them, 9but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because
of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

At the beginning of the letter to the Hebrews we’re told that “long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways through the prophets,” but now God has spoken, definitively, to us through his Son, Jesus. Jesus, who is higher even than the angels. Jesus, who now sits at the right hand
of the Majesty on high. Jesus, who tasted death for everyone. Jesus is the one who we must pay greater attention to.

As we approach again the holiest of weeks, and walk with Jesus as he tastes death, pay attention. Live the words of ELW Hymn #347:

Go to dark Gethsemane
… watch with him one bitter hour
… learn from Jesus Christ to pray.
Follow to the judgment hall, view the Lord of life arraigned
… learn from him to bear the cross
… learn from Jesus Christ to die.

But don’t stop there – are you still paying attention? Early hasten to the tomb… where Jesus, our Savior, who tasted death for us, teaches us also to rise to eternal life.

Doug Williams

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