Diligence to the full Assurance... the Wayfarer

Diligence to the full Assurance

Hebrews 6:11-20 King James Version (KJV)

¹¹ And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

¹² That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

¹⁴ Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

¹⁷ Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

¹⁸ That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

¹⁹ Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

²⁰ Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Diligence, continually striving toward a goal, unrelentingly certain of the attainment of that goal.

How few exhibit that diligence when tasked with the guidance of others toward the goal of eternal life... how few exhibit that diligence of belief in the face of adversity on adversity when met by the argument of disbelief, and the seeming attainment of goals by the unbeliever as the prosperity of the world is so obvious, while the prosperity of eternal life remains in a future still requiring hope.

There remains, for the diligent, the assurance given by God Himself, not only of that hope, but the certainty of the delivery of that hope that has already been given.

God's promise remains immutable, unchangeable, and unchanging, no matter how much this world herald change within it, no matter how much that change loudly proclaim its significance and attempt to deny the promise and hope already delivered to the believer through the sacrifice of a Savior, in Whom resides the only hope and certainty beyond the grave that awaits even the most progressive and prosperous.

God is incapable of lying. When He makes a proclamation, it becomes a fact, fete accompli, a work no longer in progress, but a completed work that stands in its completion beyond the "changes" demanded by men, and despite the temporary nature of those "changes" he thinks to have accomplished.

What was brought us by Christ Jesus cannot be changed, cannot be diverted, cannot be reversed, cannot be denied... It is a Work completed and complete in its delivery for all who choose to accept both warning and promise delivered by Him.

The diligence shown by Him in that delivery was with the full assurance of its necessity and efficacy by God, who sent him to make that delivery to a creature beyond hope, having only the certainty of the wrath he brought and brings upon himself.

That diligence of delivery of the gospel good news of the availability of eternal life was worth the life blood that held the only assurance available to that stubborn and sinful creature.

That life blood was given willingly, and the diligence continued with the resurrection that granted proof of the assurance of what was being delivered to the few that chose and choose to accept that delivery.

The anchor remains in the steadfastness of that hope, that certainty that demands only the change demanded by God himself... that of repentance given in return for the redemption containing the promise of that hope and certainty.

That hope and certainty indeed enters the veil, and exists beyond the confines of that veil, unlike the promises evoked by any "change" that mankind may imagine for himself.

If that hope and certainty exists within the heart of any man, it exists with the required diligence to the task at hand, and the full assurance that the completion of that task is not in vain, as the warning and promise were not in vain... as the delivery of that warning and promise were not in vain...making both still valuable beyond measure, viable throughout time to those few willing to accept that viability provided through the blood that delivered it.

2 Timothy 1:12

¹²For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Amen and Amen

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