Today in our focus on placing our confidence in God, we’ll look at the Book of Hebrews. Again, we see the promises of God that offers us an eternal hope we can fully rely upon. We don’t trust in a story or a fairy tale but in a Person who delivered a plan for all humankind.
Listen to Hebrews 6:16-20 …
Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding. God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. (NLT) It’s tough for us to believe the concept of never changing your mind, right?
It’s hard for us to imagine the idea of it being impossible to lie, isn’t it?
But doesn’t the hope of a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls sound amazing?
All made possible by Jesus who went first to lead us into a relationship with the Father.
Listen once again to today’s passage in The Message Bible … When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they’ll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post … Of the Scriptures we have read this week, including this powerful passage today, what have you heard that assures and reassures you that God is 100% confidence-worthy?
Why would placing all your confidence in God and God alone be the best decision you could ever make?
What do you need to do to do, or let go of, to place all your trust in Him?
Let’s pray together: “Father, thank You that You will not and cannot break Your promises. Thank You that You are truth and therefore cannot and will not lie. Thank You that your hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for my soul. As above, so below.”