Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,”
This is perhaps an understatement. But there is a reason why, though Jesus is presently "crowned with glory and honor", creation still expresses freedom by way of disobedience.
For it was fitting that he,
for whom and through whom all things exist,
in bringing many children to glory,
should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering.
We wish that it would be otherwise. We would prefer that suffering would just be removed. If left up to us, Jesus might have come and simply imposed his authority on all sinners, taking away their freedom to do evil, our freedom to displease him. But he did not create us with the freedom simply to reverse course and take away that freedom.
Adam and Eve chose a course of action that made suffering inevitable. Their very souls were, by their first sin, cast toward preferring self to other. This selfishness was the root of the break in their relationship with God, with each other, and with creation. It's results were desires and expectations which were not good, which would hurt oneself and one's neighbor. This was the heritage the passed on to us.
He who consecrates
and those who are being consecrated all have one origin.
Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers” saying:
I will proclaim your name to my brethren,
in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.
Jesus did not simply remove Adam and Eve and try again with new first parents. Rather, he did something better. He embraced our humanity and, in himself, took the very things that our ancestors had done wrong, the abilities they used selfishly, and the riches they hoarded, and used everything he had to glorify God. The fifty-cent word for this is recapitulation. Because he did so, healing did not come to us from outside as something imposed. It was something that we ourselves could choose to embrace at the most basic level of our being, an embrace marked by freedom rather than conquest. He raised us all to a higher dignity by not choosing an easier way. The reason we do not see all things subject to him just yet is that the living out of the yes of Jesus is something which we in turn must each represent in the offering of our own lives. But before we grumble, let us reflect on how amazing it is that our lives can now truly be a holy and acceptable sacrifice to God the Father through Jesus (see Romans 12:1). We are often too busy wishing we didn't have to offer ourselves to realize how amazing it is that we ourselves are what God desires.
What is man that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man that you care for him?
You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honor,
subjecting all things under his feet.
To receive that this is a good word, that the way Jesus chose to redeem us is a good way, we must be healed of the lies we have believed about it.
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are–the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!”
Jesus did not come to destroy us. What is being lived out in the world now is not the endless prolongation of suffering, but rather the concrete working out of the victory over suffering. This means that, although the whole created order is not yet subject to him, we should see the authority of his teaching healing and setting sinners free more and more. If we do not see the authority at work at may be because we still believe the demon more than Jesus. We may still be afraid to believe that he cares for us. Jesus wants to silence that demon today. He wants to make us whole, so that whether we face suffering and adversity or comfort and prosperity, we can embrace it all in him.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet.
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