Fix Your Thoughts on Jesus

 DEVOTION

TO HEBREWS

FIX YOUR THOUGHTS ON JESUS

Heb 3:1-6

3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. 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, testifying to what would be said in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.

NIV

What can we say about these words the author of this letter to Hebrews points out? First, we could be called holy brothers because of our faith in Jesus Christ we share in the heavenly calling. That is to say, we do not, or should not respond to the world's calling. Heaven and the world call out, and each person must choose which calling they hear and respond to. Because we heard the call from heaven and accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are among those who are holy brothers. However, we still might need some reminding because we are told to fix our eyes or our thoughts, on Jesus, the apostle and high priest we confess. What this implies is that although we confess Jesus it is possible that our thoughts might wander, and we find ourselves having thoughts generated by this world. We do live in this world, but again, we are told, or at least the common consensus that we are not supposed to be of the world. Being of the world would mean we have responded to the call of the world rather than the heavenly calling, then we would not be holy brothers. But what do we do about fixing our thoughts on Jesus? The idea is that as we are faced with the things of this world, we always see them through the eyes of Jesus, but that might be idealistic thinking. Yet, when we are faced with those temptations from the world thinking, we know they are temptations. We see them for what they are, and we make an effort to restrain ourselves, although we fail. But therein lies the difference between being a holy bother hearing our heavenly calling, and those who close their ears to that calling and can only hear the call of the wild, or of the world. We know when we have failed, they don’t count sin as a failure, but as a pleasure. We know because we have fixed our thoughts on our high priest, Jesus,  the builder of the house, which we need to spend more time on later, but what we know is we are that house. Therefore, it would be right to fix our thoughts on the author and finisher of our faith. Praise God for He has sent us the Spirit to aid us in fixing our thoughts on Jesus.