Revelation and beholding Jesus the radiant majestic Son of the living God takes us beyond just living for the sole motive of having an 'easier life' The latter is bound up in self-absorption or perhaps fear. Living for the will of God may sound nauseatingly virtuous to a secular person or a fleshly engrossed Christian but it is actually the natural consequence of true affection for Christ. Love and obedience cannot be separated. Increasing love of God leads to increasing obedience and so on. The Judaistic believers in Hebrews were being tempted to see Jesus as an angel or equal to an angel. It would have made life easier to have believed these rumours and to remain within the framework of Judaism - repectability assured. However life in Christ will not necesarily be easy. A wrong assumption at Gospel uptake can lead to a life where this is the governing expectation and raison d'etre. Jesus my problem solver and bringer of comfort and security? Living out of revelation of Jesus as the Son of the living God will ruin us for this basis for living. The whole of Hebrews chapter 1 is a commentary on the fact that Jesus IS the Son of God and in His radiance and divinity is superior to all the angelic and created realm. Accordingly dangerous living becomes way more attractive, indeed a reflex, in light of such a great salvation and God than 'easy street' Do you have a majestic and glorious King in view, a Gospel that continues to make you want to 'reckon yourself dead to sin' (Romans) and to live a dangerous life of adventure for God that will echo in eternity?!
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