Worship Jesus as the angels do

Hebrews 1:6 And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, “And let all the angels of God worship Him.” We have a great encouragement to worship Jesus Christ in today’s Scripture. The author continued his reason for worshipping Jesus by recognizing His superiority over the angels, whom the Hebrews consider the mediators of the old covenant. One of the primary reasons for writing this book was to show them that the new covenant, mediated by Jesus, is greater than the old covenant. The main reason the new is better is that the mediator is greater than the angels. Most commentators are agreed that Jesus’ second coming in judgment is in view when God commands the angels to worship Jesus, for he wrote, “when He again brings the firstborn into the world.” No where does God say that angels are to be worshipped. In fact, we have a record of them refusing to be worshipped in Revelation 19:10, “Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, ‘Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.’” In Peter’s first epistle, speaking of Jesus wrote, 1 Peter 3:22 “who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.” We learn in the last verse of the first chapter that angels are servants of God’s children. When we think of living to love with Jesus, we usually think of loving people with Him. However, Jesus loves His Father, and His love for the Father dwells in us. Jesus’ love for the Father has become our love for the Father. In Him, the first and foremost commandment is fulfilled in us, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” As we live to love with Jesus, we love the Father with Him. One of the ways we love the Father is to honor His Son, as He does. If the angels are to worship Jesus, recognizing His glory when He comes, then certainly we will. We are going to worship Jesus and love God and the brethren forever. It seems to me that we ought to practice now what we know we are going to do when Jesus returns. We worship Jesus today by loving our Father and His children. As we look to Him to be the source of our lives, we worship Him as the angels do.