Jan
22
2010
Why We Call Him Master
“In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.” (Heb. 2:8)
Let this truth take hold: Everything is subject to Jesus. “God left nothing that is not subject to him.” The entire creation–everyone and everything in existence, whether in heaven or on earth–lives beneath the feet of Jesus. Everything bows under the sway of His rule and control. There is nothing excepted. He is King, and all is subject to him. The Savior is exalted far above every power, dominion, principality, ruler–everything!
“Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.” That disturbs some people. It may even sound like a contradiction. Or, we may think this means there is something “not yet” under His sway. And we may be tempted to look around at the world’s chaos–of which there seems to be much–and say, “God did not control that. Jesus was not in that. This or that is ‘outside’ the Lord’s will.” In so many attitudes, unspoken thoughts, actions and words, we may say, “Are you really on the throne?”
But the sentence is about us–not Jesus. It points to a limitation in us–not the Risen King. Everything is under Him. But we don’t see it… yet. At present, our powers of observation are limited. Our vision is blurred. Our perception cloudy. But believing that Jesus is not ruling and that there is anything not yet under him because we don’t see it yet is like believing the sun is not in the sky because the day is cloudy. The clouds may block the sun from our view, but the sun beams there in all the radiant power it ever had on the hottest, brightest day.
So it is with Jesus. We do not yet see everything subject to him, but He is the One “sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Heb. 1:3). It’s not too much to say that the entire universe hangs on His every word. Everything is subject to Him. That’s why we call Him Master.
Let us not forget this today, even if we don’t see it fully.