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希伯来书：2：5-9：5我们所说将来的世界，神原没有交给天使管辖。6但有人在经上某处证明说：“人算什么，你竟顾念他？世人算什么、你竟眷顾他？7你叫他比天使微小一点（或作 你叫他暂时比天使小），赐他荣耀、尊贵为冠冕，并将你手所造的都派他管理，8叫万物都服在他的脚下。”既叫万物都服他，就没有剩下一样不服他的。只是如今我们还不见万物都服他，9惟独见那成为比天使小一点的耶稣（或作 惟独见耶稣暂时比天使小），因为受死的苦，就得了尊贵、荣耀为冠冕，叫他因着神的恩，为人人尝了死味。
我在这里选择使用EHV（Evangelical Heritage Version）版本代替新国际2011版本。新国际2011版本使用“人类”来代替“人，”这样你会觉得诗篇2章根本不是在谈论弥赛亚基督。但是在阅读诗篇2章的时候，很明显这里指的是弥赛亚。这些经文优美地描绘了上帝的儿子降临人世，他取了人的样式，暂时比天使小。他这样做是因为他要为所有人尝尽死味，并为全世界的罪受死，就得了尊贵和荣耀为冠冕。
我从未停止对上帝拣选和拯救我的方式感到稀奇，没有靠他永恒的能力，而是靠成为我们中的一员，并替我们死。上帝的儿子取了人的样式，那是怎样一种感觉？一个永恒圣洁的上帝之子为了我们能够得胜的缘故而被试探，如同我们被试探，那是怎样一种感觉？圣洁的上帝之子用他的血肉之躯承担了我罪的羞耻，使得我能够披挂他的义站在上帝的面前，那是怎样一种感觉？
我们应该经常思索这些，因为我们正是藉着耶稣的生与死才得以和上帝和好。我们应该经常思索这些，因为我们要用生命来荣耀他，他配得这样的荣耀。
祷告：亲爱的耶稣，谢谢你从高天上下来成为我们中的一员。我的上帝知道我所有的弱点，他每天被试探，正如我被试探一样。但你是完美的，并为我的罪成了完美的挽回祭。让我今日的生命归尊贵和荣耀给你！阿们。
Hebrews 2: For God did not place the coming world, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels. 6 But there is a place where someone has testified: What is man that you remember him, or the Son of Man that you look after him? 7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor. 8 You put everything in subjection under his feet. Indeed, in putting everything in subjection to him, God left nothing that is not in subjection to him. At the present time, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9 But we look to Jesus (the one who was made lower than the angels for a little while, so that by God’s grace he might taste death for everyone), now crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death. (EHV)
I chose to use the EHV version here instead of NIV 2011. NIV 2011 uses “mankind” instead of “man,” which would not make you think that Psalm 2 is speaking of the Messiah, the Christ. But in reading Psalm 2 it is obvious that the reference is to the Messiah. These verses describe beautifully the coming of the Son of God, taking human flesh, being made a little lower than the angels. He did this so that he could taste death for everyone, and now he is crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death of the sins of the world.
It never ceases to amaze me how God chose to save us, not through his eternal power, but by becoming one of us and dying in our place! What was it like for the Son of God to take human flesh? What was it like for the eternally holy Son of God to be tempted as we are tempted so that he could the victory for all of us? What was it like for the holy Son of God to carry the shame of my sin in his flesh so that I could stand before God clothed in his righteousness?
We should think of these things often because it is through the life and death of Jesus that we find peace with God. We should think of this often, because then in our lives we will give him the glory that he deserves.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, thank you for coming down from heaven and making yourself one of us! I do not have a God who does not understand my weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every way that I have been tempted. Only, you remained perfect so that you could be the perfect atonement for my sin. Let me life today honor you and give you glory! Amen.