Reading
SAA Notes
Verse 6 is a verse I was encouraged to learn off by heart as a young person. Saving faith is when we trust God and His promises in both Testaments. Such faith is evidenced by our practice of that faith – when we conduct ourselves and our relationships according to God’s ways.
SJA Notes
* Loving God, please teach us from Your word today.
“For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.”
Here is the substance of our hope, in what is not yet seen.
“But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.”
Here is an exhortation to us, that we would desire this city that God is preparing – This better country.
Our faith rests in the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing God – Who is building His kingdom now on this broken earth (the temporary, the shadowy things), but too, is preparing for us a better country, a city not made by hands (the eternal, the heavenly reality).
As we read in Revelation 21,
“And I saw a holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
This is our hope! Steady and sure, founded on the Rock of ages, the King of glory.
* Lord God,
Thank You for Your word.
Thank You for this passage in Hebrews that shines a light on Your gift of faith, helping us to see it a little more clearly.
Please help us be loving as You are loving. Please help us be merciful and full of grace, as You are.
Please grow Your word in us, that we would be good soil and bear much fruit.
Amen.