Today’s
passage from Hebrews is an affirmation of Christ identifying with our humanity.
Just as we are children of God, so Christ comes alongside us and calls us his
brothers (and sisters). He fully understands everything about the ups and downs
of the human condition. He needed to experience the depths of any human
suffering or temptation to be able to be truly compassionate and merciful in
his saving role. In fact the passage clarifies that the "author of
salvation" was even made "perfect through suffering".
Another
example of God's upside-down kingdom - and Christ's triumph over the bleakest
of human experience, death.
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