IT’S
JUST STUFF!
Heb
10:34-35
34
For
ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your
goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an
enduring substance.
35
Cast
not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Paul,
the presumed writer of Hebrews, thanks and congratulates his readers
for identifying with him in his imprisonments. They had not only endured but enjoyed
the loss of goods and money by the tyrants who stole from them and the apostle
to whom they gave. Stuff may be lost through neglect or destroyed by calamity
but stuff donated to the cause of Christ is ever retained and rewarded. It’s
just stuff!
Tribulation,
patiently endured,
produces experience and maturity in the sufferer and ultimately makes him or
her bold! (See Romans 5:3-5) When that for which you have been holding back is
taken away it becomes easier to simply not hold back. One literally has nothing
to lose because it has already been lost. Now, freed from his stuff, he is at
liberty to speak his mind. In fact, the word “confidence” as used in verse 35
is the Greek word parrhesia and it means “outspokenness;
frankness; bluntness.”
When
we learn that our stuff is just stuff, our tongues will then be loosed to witness
and to praise.
Dear
Lord, let me see my stuff as it actually is. Let me consider that I have a
better and enduring substance awaiting me in Heaven. AMEN
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