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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Right Hand of God, continued
But there is a place where someone has testified: "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor and put everything under his feet." In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. (Hebrews 2:6-8—NIV)
"You crowned him with glory and honor and put everything under his feet."
God created man to rule. The Scripture defines man as a son of God whose destiny it is to govern the works of God's hands. This destiny has not been assigned to the angels. Rather they are helpers sent by God to assist the rulers of the world to come.
The right hand of God, the position to which the sons of God have been raised, is the place of supreme authority.
"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven." (Matthew 26:64—NIV)
The Lord Jesus will not appear until His brothers are ready to appear with Him. Then He and they shall appear "at the right hand of the Mighty One."
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.(Colossians 3:1—NIV)
Notice again the tense of the verb: "you have been raised."
We already have been raised. In fact, it is likely we were raised, in God's timeless vision, to the right hand of Christ when the world began. It is by grace we have been assigned this position of supreme authority, not by our efforts toward righteousness.
Yet we must, as Paul, press toward the mark, the heavenly calling. God has given the song but we must sing it. We press toward the mark by counting everything of this world as garbage, relatively speaking. The highest throne was given us by grace from the beginning, and yet it must be attained. There is a balance here between our predestined rank in the Kingdom and our response to our calling. To neglect that balance, either on the side of God's work or our work, is to insure we never will grasp that for which we have been grasped.
Please keep this balance in mind because there is tremendous error being preached in our day. One error is that it is useless to try to attain such glory because "we are only human." The other error is that God "sees us through Christ" and it doesn't matter what we do because once we take "the four steps of salvation" we can never be removed from our high place in God.
One could understand how believers could accept such error if there were no Bible to be had. But in countries with an abundance of Bibles people are still being taught—and are believing—doctrines that are totally unscriptural and destructive of our moral transformation in Christ. This is tragic!
To be continued.