Hebrews 11-13

We have all looked forward to the fulfillment of promises only to be met with the disappointment when they fell through.  It is difficult to maintain relationships based upon failed promises.  We could look at the lives of those mentioned in Hebrews 11 and understand their sense of loss at not seeing the realization of the promises God made to them.  But that it not what they did, or how the lived.  While it is true that they did not see the completion of God’s promises they did see the fruit as he was working them out.  He wove their lives into the fabric of the promises in making and they keep the sights grounded in their faith.  They did not give up on God’s promises, even when they did not live to see them actualized.  The Hebrew writer is telling us that we need to follow their example; not giving up on our faith.

Stuart