Living Water: Lessons from Esau 2

One of my goals for the years is to read three chapters a day of the Bible.

One of the chapters for today is Hebrews 2.

I was struck by how closely it relates to the Lessons from Esau from Living Water.

The chapter starts: We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

And it ends: Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

In between is the case for Christ as a man and as God, but those two verses struck me as being directly related to Living Water.

See, I don't think we pay careful attention to what we have heard. All too often we take it for granted. We don't chew on it and mull it over and ponder. The sermons and Bible studies and radio and TV shows and conferences are all really nice but we don't let them impact our lives,(And to be honest some of them we shouldn't let impact our lives). We just slowly fade away from our faith.

We forget too that Christ was a man, tempted as we are tempted. He was sinless and he overcame that temptation. We try to overcome the temptations in our lives through our own strength and we turn to the Lord as a last resort...if we remember to turn to Him at all.

How sad it is to forget what we have heard and not use the tools that God has given us and slowly fade away to a dirty shade of beige...