There is a text in the book of Hebrews that offers for those of us seeking spiritual power both a challenge and an opportunity. The writer of the Book of Hebrews speaks of the Heros of the Faith in Chapter Eleven. These were people of power. The writer then implies that we too can be people of power if we will but walk in faith as these people did. Actually, the writer points out that the work these people started could never be completed except by us and only then because we have an advantage I have recorded below the two very significant verses from Hebrews; 11:39 & 40.
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
The issue that can provide great help to us in our search for the Abundant Life is, what advantage do we have? What is the “promise?” What is the “better thing” that God has provided for us? There can be no way that we can fully understand the Old Testament, nor can we complete the work that these people started until we undersand and utilize this New Testament Advantage.
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This passage has been great comfort to me as I get older. I believe for a number of promises I may never see this side of eternity.
But, like those in Heb 11 I walk in confidence the promises will be carried out in full.
I know many mothers who was somehow promised by God that their kids would live for God and went to the grave NOT having seen the promise.
The promise in most cases was fulfiled but that mom didn't see it. Or did she? A cloud of witnesses??
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