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Typing my notes from Dan Winkler's class on Hebrews, I came upon Topic #4 "Perseverance" dealing with Heb. 3:1-9. On that day’s notes there is a subtopic (point number III) entitled: “Remember What God is Like”
and then there is a sentence written underneath..
not bulleted, not emphasized... it just says:
He Will Send You to Hell.
Ouch. That's slightly intimidating. Okay, that is slightly more than intimidating.
However, I’m sure some of you might be thinking... ya know- I'm a Christian. I obeyed the gospel and I attend services faithfully... I read my Bible and pray...
I'm good.
Newsflash: He is looking into your heart.
HE IS LOOKING INTO YOUR HEART
yikes.
Your thoughts:
Like when your mind rolls it's eyes and the annoying guy who follows you around everywhere and look down on him because he's not socially gifted and cool.
When you race into services and get incredibly irritated when the clock hits 12:00 and you haven’t taken the Lord’s Supper yet.
Like when the pretty girl is flirting with that guy and you call her a slut in your mind.
When you don't want to talk to her because she's got an annoying laugh and too many problems.
When you don't have time for him because he's just such a jerk and why should you bother being nice?
Every motive, every intention, every thought, every action, every internal struggle, every notice....
The TRUTH about YOU... God is seeing it at this very moment.
We don't get to give excuses.
Have you ever had a broken heart? Know what it feels like for someone to abandon you and choose someone else because you just weren't enough? Do you know that hurt?
That is the same cruel abandonment and unjust pain that God feels when we choose to sin. Anytime we choose some THING over God- we abandon God for it, and that is exactly what we do to him time and time again. And no matter what you look like to us, no matter what I look like to you- He sees our HEARTS. So even when you act the part perfectly, and you do what you’re supposed to- if you’re not BEING who you are supposed to be and MEANING what you’re supposed to mean- then it’s not good enough.
It’s not even close.
Remember whose you are.
-----Written by: Jessica Phillips (Student at Freed-Hardeman)
