No Turning Away

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

NO TURNING AWAY

Heb 12:25-13:1

25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."   27 The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken — that is, created things — so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our "God is a consuming fire."   NIV

Well there we have it, there isn't a single thing we know in the world that isn’t going to be completely shaken, the whole of all creation will shake, actually be destroyed because our God is a consuming fire. Now those people of old surely must have witnessed His power and yet they refused to listen and obey the voice of Moses, a man on earth and they did not escape, what will we do? We have a kingdom that is coming which will be so glorious that we dare not forget to listen to Him from heaven. We cannot allow the screaming of this world to overpower His still small voice who speaks to our hearts and minds. Everything in the world will vanish; it will be consumed by fire, so why do we cling on to all this stuff? Why do we spend so much of our time trying to accumulate as much of it as we can? Do we really think all the things of the world will bring us peace of mind? Do we really think we have any really security in the accumulation of wealth? What is wrong with us, why don’t we spend half the amount of time worshipping God with reverence and awe then we do worshipping our own lives? Do we not get it? We need to be so completely aware of the coming kingdom that our main focus of life is to serve our beloved Lord. We need to be about His business, building the Kingdom of God, sharing the Gospel, living our faith out loud, being ready at a moment’s notice to leave all this stuff behind and leap for joy at the coming of our King! The new city of Jerusalem will be so grand, so incredibly more then we can even imagine from John’s description. We dare not turn away because we are distracted by all the temptations of this world, not even a glance, for a glance becomes a stare and a stare becomes a desire and a desire becomes a quest and when that quest is done, we have fallen into the trap set by Satan. No turning away.