Hebrews 13:2 – There si a lot of truth in this passage about hospitality. A brother here shared in a lesson recently about how people over and over and over in the Bible showed simple hospitality and were blessed tremendously for it. He went on and on with more examples than i can remember. Think about Rahab, Zacheus, Lydia, Cornelius, Mary and Martha, and more. I think we short change the power of showing hospitality.
\nHebrews 13:11-12 – The animals are burned outside the camp, I think to keep the camp pure. Jesus, our sacrifice, suffered outside the camp as well. But the Hebrew writer here does something that surprised me. I was thinking that the point would be about how because of His suffering outside the gate, we can have the places of honor inside. Instead, he calls us to humility and to go, in our spirits, to Jesus, in his shame, and sit at the cross with him. To me it’s a powerful reminder of how Jesus sat with the lowly and rejected throughout his life and how we ought to do he same.
\nHebrews 13:14 – Sometimes this seems so real. I don’t feel that I belong here, the things that are familiar to most are foreign to me. What seems acceptable to most is ridiculous to me. I don’t understand them, and they don’t understand me. This world makes no sense, I just want to go home.
\nHebrews 13:15 – If your lips acknowledge Jesus, what fruit would that bear? More than words.
\nHebrews 13:16 – “Do not neglect to do good …” This is the hardest thing. Avoiding evil is a cake walk at times compared to getting off my duff and actually doing some good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"