E Become Like Us

When you dey pass through hard thing, who dey help pass? Most times, na person wey don pass through am too. Person wey fit talk say, I know. I don dey there. Di Bible talk say na exactly why Jesus come as one of us.

Di writer to di Hebrews don just tell im readers wey don tire how great di Son of God be: di shining of God glory, wey big pass di angels. But then e turn corner. Dis great Son, e talk, come lower pass di angels for small time. E become human being. And di readers fit ask, why? Why di Son of God go take body wey fit tire, wey hunger fit catch, wey fit feel pain, and wey fit die? For dis few verses, di writer give im answer, three reasons, one after di oda.

First, to defeat death. Since di children get flesh and blood, di writer talk, e too take part for di same thing. God children na human beings, so di Son become human being too. Why? So dat through death, e go destroy di one wey get di power of death, wey be di devil. Death be like prison, and di devil hold di key. So di Son imself waka enter dat prison, as man, to break am open from inside. And e come to free di people wey, because dem fear death, dem dey for bondage for all dia life. Fear of death don chain people for all dia life. Jesus come to set dem free.

Second, to be our priest. Di writer remind dem say e no come to help angels, but to help di children of Abraham, real people. So e correct make e become like im brothers and sisters for every way. Why? So dat e go be high priest wey get mercy and wey dey faithful before God. For Israel, di high priest dey stand for di middle, between God and di people. Once every year, for di Day of Atonement, e go enter di holiest place to make atonement for di sins of di people. Jesus become human being so dat e go stand for us, as one of us, and settle our sins once and for all.

And third, to help us when test come. Because e imself don suffer when temptation come, di writer talk, e fit help di people wey temptation dey test. To help here mean to run come help. Jesus know how e be to tire, make people misunderstand you, betray you, to dey for pain, to dey tempted to take di easy way. Later, di writer add say dem tempt am for every way wey dem dey tempt us, but e no sin. So when you dey struggle, you no dey pray to somebody wey dey far, wey no fit understand. You dey pray to somebody wey don dey there. Di baby for Bethlehem grow up to become our brother.

Di law of Moses describe di cloth of di high priest well well. For im shoulders, e wear two onyx stones wey dem write di names of di twelve tribes of Israel on top. For im chest, over im heart, e wear one breastpiece with twelve precious stones, and dem also carve di names of di tribes for dem. Anytime e go before God, e really carry im people for im shoulders and over im heart.

E Become Like Us. You go find am for Hebrews chapter two, verse fourteen to eighteen. For Christmas, Christians dey remember say God Son take flesh and blood so dat e go free us, stand for us, and help us. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Wetin you dey face now wey Jesus understand from inside?