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

I really feel what the writer has to say about faith today.  He starts by telling us that faith allows us to understand that the universe was formed out of nothing by God’s command, rather than believing that nothing just became everything which is.  Then he writes that it was by faith that Abel brought his offering to God, a sacrifice which accorded to the Law given to Moses many years in the future.  The writer goes on to describe others who were praised because of their faith.  He tells us that they considered themselves foreigners and strangers on this earth.  They looked forward to a heavenly home in the city which God had prepared for them, which God has prepared for us.  By faith the Israelites passed out of Egypt on dry land on their way to the country God had promised them, while the Egyptians, lacking that faith, were drowned in the Red Sea.  In the same way, we will pass through the threats and dangers of this life in order to enter into God’s holy city.  By faith, he tells us, these examples chose to face persecution and suffering because they would not embrace this world and its pleasures as their home, instead striving for a home with God.  The world was not worthy of them.  I am not worthy of them, but I strive to maybe one day be worthy of what they suffered.

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