Today’s Scripture Reading

⁶ But there is a place where someone has testified:
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?
⁷ You made them a little lower than the angels;
you crowned them with glory and honor
⁸ and put everything under their feet.”
In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.
HEB.2.6-8

Today’s Devotional Reading

Christ’s Unity With Humanity

God created humanity to have lordship over all things (2:6–8). But not yet.

Christ has become one with man, sharing with man his temptations, sufferings, even death itself, that he might enable humanity to become one with him, to share with him his nature and his rule. Jesus participated in our nature and in our sufferings on earth so that he could be a sympathetic mediator between God and humanity. He understands our weaknesses and intercedes for us in the presence of God the Father.

And because of this, Christ has been crowned with glory and honor.

Now humankind has the assurance that Christ is gracious, kind, and understanding, and will help those who love him to become one with him and thus qualify for his glorious inheritance (vv. 17–18).

Today’s devotional reading is pulled from: NIV Halley’s Study Bible