Wednesday January 15
Hebrews 2:11-18
I remember a few occasions when one or other of my sisters – one fourteen years older than me, and the other ten years older – telling me, in an exasperated tone, to “grow up”. I suppose that, because of their age difference, they saw me as always young, always attached to childish ways. Perhaps you have had that same experience of someone indicating that it was time for you to take a more mature stand, or attitude.
The reading from the Letter to the Hebrews calls us to grow up, to grow into a more mature understanding of Jesus as he relates to us. We have come through the Christmas season, where many people still sentimentalize the baby in a manger. But Jesus can be so much more significant than that. And so we read that Jesus came not to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham. That is, Jesus’ ministry was to humanity – to you and to me. “Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect . . . Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.”
In this Epiphany season, when we recall the many way in which Jesus became known to those around him, we might do well to reflect on how we see him. Is our understanding a rudimentary “gentle Jesus, meek and mild”? Or will we know him as one we can know as brother, an intimate and caring part of our everyday lives?
-Rev'd Paul Kett
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