On the Move
Opening Prayer
Jesus, thank You for others who are a positive influence in my life, but may You always be the ultimate influence.
Read Hebrews 3:1-6
For additional translations of the passage, use this link to Bible Gateway.
[1] Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. [2] He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. [3] Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. [4] For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. [5] “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. [6] But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. Scripture taken from the THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Reflect
How is Jesus compared to Moses?For the original readers of this letter, Moses was a huge figure. He was the one who led his people out of slavery so that they could be established as a nation in their own land. He was also the one to whom God spoke directly (Numbers 12:6–8). Now they are being told to fix their thoughts on another leader. Jesus is both their apostle (messenger from God) and their high priest (representative before God). He is greater than Moses. Moses was a faithful servant in God’s household, but as God’s Son Jesus is its founder and inheritor.Christians are called to go on a journey under the leadership and direction of Christ just as, under Moses’ leadership, Israel went on the exodus from Egypt. Christ must be the center of our attention (1), and the proof that we are truly members of his household is that we persevere on the journey (6).Some of the images the Bible uses to describe the church can sound very static – household, temple, family – and appeal to our need for stability. But in the image of a journey we are also reminded of the need for movement.
Apply
“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25). Fix your thoughts on Jesus today.
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