Fred's Devo # 70: Stay Focused on Jesus!

Key Verse: " 1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess." Hebrews 3:1

Comments: In this chapter, the writer of Hebrews exhorts us to fix our eyes upon Jesus. He is worthy of our praise above anything else that could grab our attention. God has a word for us in verses 7,8,10,12 and 13-14:

Don't Have a Hard Heart!
7So, as the Holy Spirit says:
"Today, if you hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,

Don't Have a Straying Heart!
10That is why I was angry with that generation,
and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways."

Don't Have a Sinful- Unbelieving Heart!.
"12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Encourage Each Other: Sin is Deceitful!
13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

Hold on til the End!
14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

Prayer: Lord, Forgive me for the times when I have strayed away from you or have hardened by heart against your word. Forgive for the times when I have allowed a sinful unbelieving heart that turned away from you. Instead Lord, give me a soft heart that is open to your instructions. Give me a heart that stays focused on you. embraces your word, believes it and obeys you. Help me also encourage my brothers and sister as well and warn them about the decietfulness of sin.

In Jesus Name! Amen.