What A Journey!!

The past few days traveling through Hebrews has been more then FUN!! I wanted to pull out a few verses that really made me think reading them through in The Message.


Hebrews 12: 1-3
Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!


This verse came alive again to me like the first time I read it!! I don`t think we think enough about how Jesus began and has finished this race of life. We are not doing it for the first time, or suffering through things he would not understand. We should STUDY HOW HE DID IT! And I mean really does that SHOOT ADRENALINE INTO YOUR SOUL!!


Hebrews 13: 5-6ish
GOD is there, ready to help
I'm fearless no matter what,
Who or what can get to me?

I LOVE THIS!!

Hebrews 13: 9

The Grace of Christ is the only good ground for life.

I LOVE THIS!!!

Hebrews 13: 18-21
Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we're doing or why, but it's hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. Pray that we may be together soon.
May God, who puts all things together,
makes all things whole,
Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus,
the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant,
Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd,
up and alive from the dead,
Now put you together, provide you
with everything you need to please him,
Make us into what gives him most pleasure,
by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah.
All glory to Jesus forever and always!
Oh, yes, yes, yes.


This is the end of Hebrews and just puts a BIG Stamp on the end!! Let the God who PUTS ALL THINGS TOGETHER, who MAKES ALL THINGS WHOLE, who MADE A LASTING MARK THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS, who LED JESUS, that GOD... let him now PUT TOGETHER everything in you need... not look at this ... EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PLEASE HIM!! I don`t know about you but that is not what I pray for. Dear Jesus give me everything I need to make ME HAPPY is more like my prayer. This passage really impacted me. MAKE US INTO WHAT GIVES HIME MOST PLEASURE. The prayer here at the end of Hebrews is brining the "old law" and the "new law" into a full story. The God of the Old Law and New Law is the same God he brings all things together, he was the one who brought Jesus to life again and now that same God will give us everything we need to PLEASE HIM!! AMAZING!!

So excited to start Psalm 119!!