Hebrew 3

I copied and pasted the chapter below in case you want to read it.

Lots of talk of not turning away from God.  Talk of those in the wilderness not getting to go into the promised land.  Jesus greater than Moses...it's big stuff that I think makes most people think: If I'm not good God doesn't want me around.

What does God want then?  The people spoken about in this chapter are the Hebrews that were led miraculously out of Egypt.  They had been slaves there for over 400 years.  God had a place to take them, he just asked that they trust him and he would get them where they needed to go.

Easy enough right?

He asks us not to harden our hearts too.  He says he wants us to trust him to get us where he wants us to be.

If you have read this blog before you know that God asks us to trust him to save us.  Easy enough.

But I was thinking that God wants us to trust him for more than a ticket to heaven.

'Cause this world is hard to navigate.  Very hard...and I've come to believe that if we don't get some good advice from God we are very likely to shipwreck everything.  

Let's face it, we don't have much of an option with death when it is all said and done.  If we don't trust God with that one we'd be pretty stupid.   

But this life... there is an illusion that we can control things.  That we can do things are way.  But the truth is that while we may be able to accomplish some things, we really have very little control over our circumstances.  We can't make people love us, we can't keep sickness at bay, we can't control the decisions our children make.  

Shoot, I can barely control my own emotions or thought life.

We have to entrust ourselves to the one who is trustworthy.  Who gave up his own child so that we could have a relationship with him.  Someone who would do that is worth trusting.

Hebrews 3

Jesus Greater Than Moses

 ¹ Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. ² He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. ³ Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. ⁵ “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”^[a] bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

 ⁷ So, as the Holy Spirit says:

   “Today, if you hear his voice,
 ⁸ do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
   during the time of testing in the wilderness,
⁹ where your ancestors tested and tried me,
   though for forty years they saw what I did.
¹⁰ That is why I was angry with that generation;
   I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
   and they have not known my ways.’
¹¹ So I declared on oath in my anger,
   ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”^[b]

 ¹² See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³ But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. ¹⁴We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. ¹⁵ As has just been said:

   “Today, if you hear his voice,
   do not harden your hearts
   as you did in the rebellion.”^[c]

 ¹⁶ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.