Today I want us to look to the end of Chapter 10 and gain some encouragement from the writer for the situations that we may be facing in our lives today, that today you may walk in a renewed hope in your Savior:
"Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, 'Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.' BUT we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their soul."
hebrews 10:35-38
I think that this passage, and all of Chapter 10 in fact, is wrapped up by James Montgomery Boice; "Victories in such sufferings are eternal in the same way that the victory of our Lord upon the cross is eternal. Our sufferings endure for a moment, but they achieve an eternal victory. They point to the truth and grace of God forever. I am convinced that in the farthest reaches of heaven, in what we would call billions of years from now, there will be angels who will look on everyone who has been redeemed by Jesus Christ and thrust into spiritual warfare by Him, and they will say; 'Look, there is another of God's saints, on who triumphed over evil by the Lord's power!!' Revelation 12:11-12 describes how they will exclaim of our great victories over Satan: 'They overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them!!' In achieving those eternal victories, we who love the Lord Jesus Christ will have indeed been more than conquerors."
Today may you endure, may you joyfully enter the world and speak and sing and dance for the goodness of God in your lives, trusting that He will work for good, whether here or in eternity, all for those that Love Him. May our faith be increased today and may we find ourselves set ablaze by the promises of Christ.
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