How are you doing on your goals for 2020? How about a
goal to meet with God daily? Maybe you are already ready to give up on some of your
goals. Let’s especially persevere in our walk with God. He welcomes us back
anytime. However, it is harder to come back the further we drift. Satan knows
this.
The writer of
Hebrews knew it, too, and warned the Jewish believers to persevere. Hebrews 2:2 We must pay the most careful attention,
therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
They were being tempted to revert back to the old
ways of Judaism. However, Jesus had done away with the old sacrificial system as
both the perfect High Priest and perfect sacrifice.
Hebrews 2:9, 14, 17-18 9 But we do see Jesus, who
was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because
he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for
everyone… 14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of
him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— …
17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in
every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high
priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the
sins of the people. 18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able
to help those who are being tempted.
Most of us
probably aren’t tempted to revert back to Judaism, but maybe to a life or
routine void of God. Let’s make sure He’s a priority each and everyday so we don’t
drift!
Jesus is
fully man and fully God, so He can relate to our struggles and help us!
Alice
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