Wednesday, 2/1/17
Forgive me for forcing my
likes and dislikes on you, but this Chapter Twelve of the Letter to the Hebrews
has beauty well passed the first six verse I quoted yesterday. Please look with
me at verses, 11, 12, and 14.
Verse 11 says, “All discipline at the time seems a cause not
foe joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
Can you like me still smart from a whipping from your dad? It was by such measures
that he brought me to possess that self discipline without which none of us can
be happy. A freins of mine taught at one of the Bridge Schools that warehouse most
unhappy undisciplined seventeen-year-olds who waste their days chatting and looking
at their nails.
Verse 12 says, “Strengthen your drooping hands and your weak
knees.” By this the Bible means that we should spend our days purposefully.
Verse 14 says, “Strive for
that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”
Our word “holy” is just a
variation on the word “Whole.”
The original Greek version of
Our Lord’s “Sermon on the Mount” concluded in Matthew, 5/48 with Jesus saying, “In a word, you must be complete. If you are
not, you will never see God.”
