March 16

Hebrews 3:12-19

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving
heart that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as
long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our
first confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not
harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Now who were they who heard and yet
were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose
bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter
his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to
enter because of unbelief.


DG Comment: What speaks to me this morning is: “But with whom was he angry forty years?” and “For we have become partners of Christ.” During Lent, we go for forty days reflecting and examining our lives. We acknowledge the reality of sin in our lives and in our world. Yet we have a partner in Jesus Christ, who journeys with us through the wilderness of Lent, all the way to the Cross…....and beyond………....all the way to the joy of Easter.