³And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

In this description of Christ, we see Him in the final conclusion of all He has accomplished. Scholar Leon Morris captures the significance well: “Sitting is the posture of rest, and the right-hand position is the place of honor. Sitting at God’s right hand, then, is a way of saying that Christ’s saving work is done and that he is now in the place of highest honor” (EBC)

In contrast to Christ, the OT sacrificial system had the priests continually standing and making sacrifices: “Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins” (Heb 10:11). Christ’s work is done; no more sacrifices are needed:

[Christ] does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. (Heb. 7:27)

By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Heb. 10:10)

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit … (1 Peter 3:18)

Later in Hebrews 1, where we read of Christ’s superiority over angels, the author quotes Psalm 110:1 in a rhetorical question (with no need to state the obvious answer explicitly):

But to which of the angels has He ever said, “Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”? (Heb. 1:13)

So, we see Christ sitting in the absolutely superior position, on the right hand of Majesty (God), finished with His salvation work which the Father sent Him to do, waiting to put his feet up on the stool when God brings all creation into subjection to Christ. As for now, though, there is nothing left to do for our salvation. Our Lord’s work is finished, completed. He rested from His work.

Lord, thank You for completing the saving work you came to do. There can be no limit to my worship and praise, for you are “altogether worthy.”