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5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them? 7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor, 8 subjecting all things under their feet.” Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, 9 but 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.

This passage holds together two realities: we do not yet see everything as it should be, yet we do see Jesus. In a world that often feels uncertain or incomplete, our hope is not in what we can control, but in the One who has entered into our humanity and overcome death itself.

Jesus’ suffering was not the end of the story—it was the path to glory. Because of Him, we trust that even what feels unfinished or broken is held within God’s redeeming work. Our faith rests not in what we see, but in who we see: Christ, crowned with glory and honor.

Lord, fix our eyes on Jesus and strengthen our trust in Your grace, even when we cannot see the whole picture. Amen.

Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier

deborah@excelleadershipsolutions.com

 

Prayer concerns: For all who are suffering to know His love!