Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Psalm 8:5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
THE GLORY OF CHRIST
This should actually read, "For a little while you have made Him lower than the angels."
This psalm is not only a description of humans and our place in the universe and God's creation, but it is also a prophecy telling what it is that Christ would do for us.
For Christ being God was over and above all things, yet even though He had all authority He gave it up and for a little while became lower, lower than the angels, lower even than most men. He who had all authority put himself for a time under all authority in order that He might serve all men by suffering and dying in our place. Yet once this task was complete, He rose from the dead and received again, as the psalm says, all glory and honor, and all things were again put under his feet.
So we also who follow Christ, for a little while are lower than the angels, who do not suffer the pains of this earth, but once we have by the grace of God traveled through this life, we also rise to reign with Christ. Then we will receive glory and honor from God, the glory and honor that Christ won for us, which belongs to Christ but which He gives to us.
