The Messiah is Superior to Angels

The Messiah Is Superior to Angels
HEBREWS 1.6-14

It was Christmas again, and we spent what seemed like a very long time not just buying presents but wrapping them up. Half the fun of Christmas morning, after all, is the exciting packages in glittering wrapping, with ribbons and bows, all telling you something about how wonderful the present itself will be.

But that Christmas one of the children was so excited by the wrapping, and inside the wrapping the beautiful box, that she almost ignored the present itself. Indeed, though she seemed pleased in a way with the present, later that day we found her behind an armchair playing with . . . the box. She was using it as a tiny dolls’ house for some of her smaller toys. It worked so well, and was after all very pretty. She had laid out the wrapping paper around it, to be a kind of stage set, a backcloth, for the game she was playing. The fact that I can’t now remember what was in the box itself – the real present makes the point...

Taken from Hebrews for Everyone – by Tom Wright