The Majesty of Christ

"The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven." Hebrews 1:3

I think it is important for us to recognize the position that Jesus holds. He was not just a holy man that lived a good life. He cannot be compared to the kindest or most compassionate human being, because his own compassion is too great. It was on his back that he bore the sins of the world, and he deserves to be seated at the right hand of God. (We won't get into the confusion of the Trinity here, although you may be wondering how Christ, being God, can sit at the right hand of God.)

It would be very difficult for anyone to live the kind of life that Jesus lived, and I don't know just how much Jesus knew about his fate. Would that have made things any easier? At what point, I wonder, did Jesus know that he had to die on the cross as the sacrifice to heal the sins of the nations? And when Satan offered him a way to have the kingdoms of the world without having to go through the suffering on the cross, what kind of strength must that have taken?

I realize right now that I'm doing a terrible job of describing just how deserving Jesus is of our honor and reverence. How does one go about describing the awesomeness of Christ? Would it help to remember that it is through the divinity that is within Jesus that the world keeps spinning? All things were created through him, and all he did was breathe to create the stars. How can a being with that much power go through the humiliation of the cross just to redeem a fraction of creation?

How frustrating must it have been to be Jesus? To know that you established a law for your people so that they could be blessed, and they used that very law to kill you? "Look, here, he has claimed to be God. According to our law, we must kill him."

It is no small thing that Jesus died on the cross for us, and we must remember that he is in every way deserving of our praise.