meditation week 14

this week almost slipped by me.

so, reading through Hebrews again. because I need to read things again. and again. and again before I can count on them sticking. plus, I think you get so much from a book when you read it in its entirety, instead of just pulling out verses here and there.

Hebrews 3:13 "Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called 'today', that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold to our original confidence firm to the end."

so many truths we can draw from this passage:

{} we cannot trust our hearts to lead us (Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?")
{} God calls us to community ("exhort one another daily"...you can't exhort yourself)
{} we can become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. none of us is above being tempted and sinning. enter Christ, "for because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted" (2:18) like a callous that builds up after constant pressure, our hearts can become hardened and dead to actions/behaviors/SIN that were once detestable to us. Romans 8:13b "...but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live."