Hebrews 2:1 ESV
“Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.”
My first thought was ‘good advice’; then I thought, well of course it is, this is the Bible after all.
HAHA! Isn’t it funny how our brains work/don’t work?
Here’s the point: we must pay closer attention. The attention we’ve paid Scripture in the past isn’t enough (could it have been?); if we are going to learn from Scripture again today we must pay even closer attention. We must read that parable again. We must memorize that psalm we’ve enjoyed in the past. We must anguish over that question that just won’t go away. We must pay closer attention!
But why must? Is it because if we don’t God won’t like us? Is it because we might lose our salvation (most can’t lose what they’ve never had…)? Hear this for a moment: there are many promises in the Bible, and many of them are conditional promises: if we don’t fulfill the condition, God won’t fulfill the promise. Here we have a conditional promise (in warning form) that we won’t drift away from Scripture and good doctrine. However, if we are going to avoid the danger then we must heed the warning.
Christianity is not easy; it is simple (not complex), but it is not easy. Trusting Christ never was meant to be easy. We live in a world in rebellion against Him, should we expect that His demands would strike us as comfortable? They will strike us as plain, obvious, good, but not comfortable, not easy.
Therefore, go to His Word. You will have difficulties. You will have questions. Mostly you will have struggles to pay as much attention as you did yesterday. Struggle through them. Win over them. Fight. Fight to the death. If you are going to get through this life in condition to love being in Heaven, then you must pay much closer attention to what you have heard in Scripture.
Praise You Father for Your Word.
Praise You Son for being that Word.
Praise You Spirit for communicating that Word to me.
Striving with you,
Pastor Greg
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