- By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. Hebrews 11:9 – One of the things I prayed for when I was first married was to be able to have our own house one day. Thankfully, the Lord has provided and we have lived in our home for over 10 years now. Yet, how weird would it be if you came over to our house after us living there this long and you saw everything was still in moving boxes. We even still lived out of our suitcases and never actually moved into the house. We would be living as travelers there, not as if this was our home. That’s the picture we get with Abraham in our verse. He never “made himself home” in this land. They lived in tents, moving from place to place, never settling down like the other inhabitants around him did. Why? Because this wasn’t their forever home, and you don’t settle in a temporary place. The lesson for us is that we shouldn’t settle in Earth as if this is our forever home, for this planet is only a temporary place for us. If we are believers in Christ, then we have a heavenly home that we’ll be in someday. We then should not live here on earth as if this is our forever home. For many people live as if this place is all there is, eating, drinking, and being merry. But we’re just passing through. Let’s then not live as those who have settled that this is all there is. Let’s keep our end destination in mind daily for that will dramatically change how we exist in this life. If Heaven is your heavenly home, then don’t settle in a place you’re just passing through. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3195
- By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. Hebrews 11:24-25 – We learn here that choosing to follow God is going to come with a price tag. A price tag that equals mistreatment and hate coming at you from our world. So why did Moses choose to take that price tag instead of the worldly pleasure at his fingertips? Why should we take that price tag instead of going along with the temptations all around us? Because the pleasures of sin are so temporary and fleeting. They never stay and constantly have you chasing after more, never having enough. As heavy as the price tag is to follow Jesus in this world, it’s nothing compared to the heaviness of the chains that sin wants to put on you when you chase after it. Know the world will mock you because of your choice to follow Jesus, but the pleasures that comes with the choice you’re making far exceeds anything sin can give you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac
- He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. Hebrews 11:19 – Abraham continued to move forward in the direction God was leading him even though the path would take God doing the impossible for everything to work out. That’s faith. Often God is going to lead you in a direction where unless God does the impossible, things just won’t turn out. Trust though God is able and will do the impossible to help you fulfill what He’s calling you to do. Never turn away from the path that God has set in front of you because it holds something we count as impossible to get over. God sees it like you do and would have never set you on that path if He didn’t expect to handle that impossibility for you. Remember, He is walking your path with you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 574
- And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Hebrews 11:39-40 – What does it mean they didn’t receive what was promised? Did God fall short for them? Not at all, the promise just didn’t come through in a time where they could see it unfold. The promise was Jesus and Him becoming the Savior of the world, destroying the hold sin and the enemy had on us. Those saints in the Old Testament lived faithfully giving everything they had for God leaning on the promise that one day the Messiah would come. Yet for them, they never got to see Him and experience the salvation He created on the cross. If they, who never saw Jesus or got to see the promise unfold in their lifetime, were able to live so faithfully, how about us? We have the promise fulfilled and the goodness of God in front of us. How much more should our faith be lived out fully now that we have the promise fulfilled in our story? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1607
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