Reading
SAA Notes
All these heroes of faith are mentioned for you and me to find out about. The stories of their faithfulness will help your faithfulness. Find out about one of them. Look up a name in a concordance to the Bible.
SJA Notes
* Father God in Heaven, surely Your word is life for us – Please feed us today.
“He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.”
Here is a passage to make our hearts sing!
An excellent list of people walking “by faith”.
What a conviction for us to taken on, to be reminded of, to be encouraged with – That we would do as Moses did and consider the mocking of the world at Jesus in us to be far better than whatever it (the world) might provide.
We see here examples of those who looked forward to their hope (a better country), but they were also those who looked forward to Jesus being born as the Son of Man.
Which is a difference of perspective from us today.
They looked forward to Jesus arriving on earth as Messiah. We look back at that time through the scriptures.
But because of anything special in us, but because God ordained for us to be born on the other side of that pivot, the turning point in history.
This is a passage to grip our hearts – Let us not read and forget, but be exhorted to point people to Jesus!
* Great God Above,
Thank You for this wonderful list of faithful people who point to You.
Thank You that we are able to see Jesus through Your word.
Please grow in us our faith in You, the evidence of things unseen, the substance of things hoped for.
Amen.