Modeled

"I will sing your praise in the middle of the congregation ... I and the children God has given me," Hebrew 2:12, 13.

Who's singing? Jesus. Where's he singing? Right in the middle of the people he comes from. He and they have one origin. He's the founder of their salvation. He's not ashamed of them. He calls them brothers, siblings. Who's his family? The very people he made holy. He's the one who made them holy, and they're the ones made holy by him. His congregation. Given to him by God. So God made Jesus to participate in real flesh and real blood, just like his people, so that Jesus, by death, would destroy the devil and his power of death. So that Jesus, by dying, would deliver the very people he had become like even to death. His family. Modeled in God's creation of the first family. Reaffirmed in God's blessing of families who walk in his ways. Sky kingdom.

As we share with a brother or sister today, we hear Jesus singing among us, the holy one who made us holy. And, together, we praise God who made us family, his children.