"Let us hold fast..." Hebrews 10:23
As I wrote in an earlier post, brushes with greatness, In light of the reality that God has created a way for us to enter into his presence and in light of the fact that we have a great high priest, the author of Hebrews gives us 3 things to do.
Let us draw near,
Let us hold fast
Let us consider
On the subject of holding fast, I thought I'd point to the importance of remembering all that God has done. The Israelites were often instructed to put things in place so that they would remember - stones in the Jordan, phylacteries on their foreheads, holidays and even the weekly sabbath were all ways to remember who God is and what he has done.
So with that, I thought I'd take this time to re-post my own story of how I decided to follow Jesus. In other words, How did a guy like me end up writing a blog like this?
I was raised in a non-religious Jewish home. I emphasize the term “non-religious” because I don’t want you to get the wrong impression. No side curls, no Hebrew classes, just an occasional Yiddish phrase and matzo ball soup. I had no idea about any of the reasons for some of the holidays we celebrated. I thought Passover was a food holiday – “Pass over the matzos please. Pass over the bitter herbs!” Seriously, I had no idea. I just knew we didn’t believe in Jesus because I asked my mom several times after watching Davy and Goliath or something like that.
The God issue wasn’t something that we discussed much, Read more