Hebrews 3
My unbelief will never short-circuit God’s promises. However, unbelief will exclude me from that circuit. So if God’s eternal promises do not reach me in the end, I have my own lack of faith and faithfulness to blame.
Hebrews 12:2 urges us to keep our focus on Jesus, who would be the One who both authors and completes our faith. Similarly, Hebrews 3:1 tells us to consider the Lord Jesus who was Himself faithful to the Father.
If we do not take heed to ourselves, a faithless and disobedient heart will surely lead us away from God and cut us off from Him (Hebrews 3:12). Part of taking heed is listening to the exhortations, cautions, and appeals from others lest we “be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).
Let us be “stedfast unto the end” as “partakers of Christ” (Hebrews 3:14)!
They got so close, yet “could not enter in because of unbelief” (Hebrews 3:19). Read it all