Conviction Continually Conveyed

From Hebrews 12 – 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than things than that of Abel.

25 see that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven.

The worship leader's confession was a blunt one. God's Word is too much with us. Just because we pray or sing it often doesn't make it untrue.

The author of Hebrews faced just such a quickly accustomed human tendency. He looks back on his nation's history and saw that God intervened with fearful spectacle. Led by the Holy Spirit, he pointed to the continuity in God's character, and our accountability.

The Bible in our laps or on our screens doesn't come with trumpet sound. Turn up the volume as loud as we will on our devices, it is unlikely to make us tremble as God's word did when it came from the mountain in the setting he is referring to in Hebrews 12. Yet, he takes care of to remind us as a part of God's Word, the authority of that Word hasn't diminished.

By God's grace, conviction won't diminish with repetition. By God's grace, the shaping impact upon our lives may actually increase as we recognize the marvel of grace by which the Word dwells with us, dwells IN us day after day, as steady and resolute to accomplish its work as is Christ the Word made flesh that it serves.

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