We See Jesus (Heb. 2:1-9)

[Sung Psalm: 8]

Are you familiar with Amelia Bedelia? Amelia Bedelia takes everything very literally. If you tell her to put out the lights, she will take all the lamps in the house and put them outside on the porch.

If you tell Amelia Bedelia "pay close attention to the roast in the oven" – she will watch intently and pay very close attention – as the roast dries out! She will marvel as it slowly turns into leather – and she will wonder why no one told her to take it out of the oven when it was done!

So perhaps it is worth noting that when the opening line of Hebrews 2 says: "Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it..."