Hebrews 3
1 – 2
So all of you, holy brothers, should think about Jesus. You were all called by God. God sent Jesus to us, and He is the high priest of our faith. And Jesus was faithful to God as Moses was. Moses did everything God wanted him to do in God’s family.
Moses taught the people how to follow God. He showed them what kind of things God does not want in their lives. He stood between God and men.
3 – 6
A man who is the head of a family receives more honor than others in the family. It is the same with Jesus. Jesus should have more honor than Moses. Every family has its head, but God is the head of everything.
Moses was faithful in God’s family as a servant. He told what God would say in the future. But Christ is faithful as a Son who is the head of God’s family. And we are God’s family if we hold on to our faith and are proud of the great hope we have.
Jesus is the head of God’s family and He stands between God and men with all power.
7 – 9
So it is as the Holy Spirit says: “Today listen to what He says. Do not be stubborn as in the past when you turned against God. There you tested God in the desert. For 40 years in the desert your ancestors saw the things I did. But they tested Me and My patience.
You feel bad if someone says that they do not trust you. You see how it makes God feel when you do not trust Him?
We are reminded of the time when the people were afraid to go into the promised land. God had protected them and told them He would give them the promised land, but they did not trust Him.
10. I was angry with them. I said, ‘They are not loyal to me. They have not understood my ways.’
You will not trust someone if you do not know them. Do you know the ways that God says to live or do you only know that He has done some acts? He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the sons of Israel. Psalm 103:7
11. So I was angry and made a promise. They will never enter my land of rest.
Be careful when you get a thought that you cannot trust God. You will never have peace if you live like this. Psalm 95:7-11
12 – 15
So brothers, be careful that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart and will fall away from following the living God. But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is today.
Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and its tricks. We all share in Christ. This is true if we keep till the end the sure faith we had in the beginning.
This is what the Scripture says: “Today listen to what He says. Do not be stubborn as in the past when you turned against God.”
We are not robots who have been controlled by a computer that tells us to say that we love God. We have a free will to decide if we want to follow God or not. Nobody would want to be married to someone who was forced to say that they loved you.
Falling away from God can start with small things. The devil is always putting thoughts in our minds to say that we cannot trust God. We begin to think that the real world has more important things like paying our bills and problems with other people.
We begin to think God’s world is for Sunday or whenever we are around other Christians.
God is not looking for friends who only come to Him when they need help. Of course we can live this way and still go to heaven someday but we will not have the beautiful peace in our lives that comes from trusting God in all things! Psalm 95:7-8
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Who heard God’s voice and was against Him? It was all those people Moses led out of Egypt. And whom was God angry with for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned, who died in the desert.
And whom was God talking to when He promised that they would never enter and have His rest? He was talking to those who did not obey Him. So we see that they were not allowed to enter and have God’s rest because they did not believe.
Are you living as in a desert? Does it feel like the Bible and the words of other Christians are not helping you get out of this desert? It is your decision to cry out to God and tell Him that you will trust Him about everything that will help you escape!