Under His feet

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. – Ephesians 1.22-23

In the greatness of the power of God we have the blessed assurance that God has put all things under Jesus' feet though the work of the cross.

I just want to look at one aspect of that today. I was called on Thursday night to do, believe it or not, my very first funeral. The lady who died was a Christian, saved several years ago, but who had been struggling with illnesses for several years and was in a nursing home here in Naas. Since I was the only local Baptist pastor the family contacted me. We did the first part of the funeral yesterday evening and the graveside will be this morning.

As I was looking and preparing and praying and deciding what to do I thought about a lot of passages, but didn’t think about this one until this morning.

All things have been put under Jesus’ feet, including death. Jesus, in His resurrection power defeated death once and for all. Death was crushed to death, as a popular new hymn puts it.  Jesus has put all enemies under His feet. We are reminded in 1 Corinthians 15 that that the last enemy to be destroyed is death. When we celebrate the homegoing of a saint today we look forward to the day when all death will be crushed beneath the feet of our Saviour.

Praise God that all things, including death, are under the feet of Christ.