(Hebrews 12:1-13) As I read this passage beginning in verse five it explained that, as children of God, we will be disciplined for our sin, just as any earthly father would discipline his child. The question that comes to my mind, and sort of relates back to even the story of the blindman, how do we know when a hardship we face is God’s discipline for some sin in our life or if it is God testing our faith?

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(Hebrews 6:1-12) In this passage of Hebrews the people were being warned about not growing spiritually beyond their infancy as Christians. There is so much that God wants to teach us in life, more than we probably can even experience. If we are not seeking to learning more from God daily we’ll become stale Christians. We are even warned that if we stay too long in the infant stage of our faith in Christ, we risk the danger of falling back to where we came from. It is only through a maturing of our spiritual life that we can learn deeper and more profound things from God.

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(Exodus 14:5-31) Most of us know of the story when God parted the Red Sea for the Isrealites to cross, then swallowed up the Egyptians. The scene started with a doubting people, the Isrealites, fearing for their live thinking somehow that God wouldn’t take care of them in the face of the attack by Pharoh’s army. Once God led them across the parted sea, and into safety, they turned back to trust in the Lord out the kind of fear we are called to have of Him.

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(Revelation 1:1-18) This morning as I read John’s words, I was once again reminded of how amazing it is to have a God that has defeated death for us, who loves us so much that we can completely trust with our lives. John was instructed to send a letter to seven churches as whitness to what he saw, for the purpose of encouraging them to persevere in the faith.

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