Hope in God

Consider Each Other How to Stir Up Love by John Piper (Excerpt)


Hebrews 10:23-25

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; 24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.

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"First, verse 23 says, "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful." Now that is not something you do with your hands or your feet. You don't go to the kitchen to do this, or to the den or across the street or to the office or to school. This is not done where anyone can see. This is an affair of the heart. Embrace your hope. Hold fast to your hope. Be a hope-filled person. Hope in God. Because God has made promises to you and he is faithful. He has promised to write the law on your heart (10:16) and work in you what is pleasing in his sight (13:21); he has promised to remember your sins no more (10:17); he has promised that we will be perfected for all time by a single sacrifice (10:14); he has promised never to leave us or forsake us (13:59); and he has promised to bring good from all our pain (12:10). And so he keeps his word."


Key Thought: "Be a hope-filled person. Hope in God. Because God has made promises to you and he is faithful."