IT’S JUST STUFF!

 

Thursday, March 11, 2021

 

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 never utterly lost. God provides stuff for us that we might provide stuff for ministry.

 

           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