The Truth of His Word

The book of Hebrews was written to those people whose faith has been wavering, because their lives are not yet rooted in Christian principles. While many will be offend by this premise, those who think they have their faith down pat, need to study more, reflect more and reach the plateau that our faith is challenged everyday and a spiritual renewal is in need everyday.

The certainty of God’s promise is absolute, there are no possibilities for the Word of God to fail. Chapter 6v17 states that when God wanted to guarantee His promise, He gave His Word. The chapter goes on by saying that God can’t break His Word. This is a statement that goes beyond all the possibilities of shouldn’t, or won’t, to the definitive, He can’t break His Word. And the verses further qualifies that because His Word cannot change, the promises of it likewise are also unchangeable. Those promise cannot change with the influence of others, will not change with the manipulation of popular demand, and does not change at a whim, Romans chapter 8 gives a look at the inclusiveness of this truth when Paul writes, “I'm absolutely convinced that nothing--nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable--absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us…….

Hebrews 6 continues saying, we, who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances to the very presence of God, where Jesus, running on ahead of us has taken up His permanent post as high priest for us….” If we have run to God to seek protection, help, guidance or comfort WE have every right to grab the promised hope and never let go. The inbetween lines here, the implied is incredible. ALL of us have turned to Christ at some crosspoint of our lives and that gives us every reason to expect the promise of hope, that is to be free from the prisons of earth where, “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

The promise of hope, to pull from the constraints of the flesh which are fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. With the hope that lives and relationships will mend and become whole again, with the hope that the chains of addiction and oppression loose their binds, for the hope that we become healed in our bodies, minds heart and spirit….

Though the verse calls it an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, I suspect it can be amended to include bodies, minds, and hearts, for Jesus is the Greatest of ALL Healers. The verse from Paul’s letter to the Galatians (5:9) includes the warning; those who do such things (constraints of the flesh) will not inherit the kingdom of God. It can also be implied that the promise of hope that we have every reason to hold onto would not exist for those of us still mired in those darknesses. The verse in Hebrews is encouraging that the promise of God’s hope is etched in the truth of His Word. Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, insuring salvation for believers.

IHN
TPDoyle
040508