Today, I am reading and commenting on  Hebrews 10-11.

The writer continues to expound on his theme about how we may enter into the presence of God because Jesus has offered Himself as a sacrifice for our sins once for all time.  He then goes on to speak about how we are saved by faith.  The similarity to the way in which Paul writes on the same subject is striking.  And yet this writer is different enough in his word choices for it to be clear that he is not Paul.  The writer makes it clear that we are saved by putting out faith in God, but he also gives examples of the accomplishments to which our faith should lead us.  The writer lists many great heroes of the Bible whose accomplishments resulted from their faith.  He includes in that list those whose faith led them to suffer great pain and even death.   I want to end my thoughts today with this writer’s definition of faith: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.