Hebrews 1
Pastor Jason Yon
While growing up, I remember a television show that my mom LOVED to watch. She would sit down on our nice comfy couch with her blanket, popcorn and nearby tissue box to watch “Touched by an Angel.”
As I remember, it was a pretty good show that featured a young angel-in-training named Monica. Her loving-yet-stern angel “coach,” Tess, always helped her to make the right decision on how to help someone. During every episode, I always chuckled when, somewhere in the last segment, Monica or Tess had something valuable and impactful to say and there was always a beam of bright light that shown behind as they spoke. It was a bit cheesy for me, but my mom loved it. It was a good, wholesome show that many times brought the Word of God to a national major network audience.
There was just one part of the series that seemed to bother me a little bit, and I’m not sure that I ever understood the reason until I read Hebrews 1. Many times, it seemed that much of the focus was placed on the angels and what they were doing for the people in need, rather than on Jesus himself. Although the ladies spoke about God and His love, I do not remember a single episode that spoke about God’s Son. Although I was grateful for a TV show that spoke of God’s love, I was always a little disappointed that they never spoke of His Son and attaining salvation.
Angels are powerful and mysterious beings that seem to get a lot of attention. Yet, as Hebrews 1 reminds us, Christians should be careful to make sure that our focus is always on Jesus, not just God’s angels. Hebrews 1:3 says it this way: “The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”
With a predominant “C” personality, Pastor Jason’s calculating and careful nature is expressed in wanting things to be correct. As he observes, “All of the keys on my key ring are facing the same direction and in order from smallest to largest.”
