Today as I was coming back from the Wannsee Conference House on the bus, I began to pray with an intensity which I have not for a while. I had been thinking of what the German has forsaken, abandoned, forfeited, and the catastrophic result of such forsaking. Germany is known in Church Hisotry as the "land of the Reformation," but now almost entirely a nation of apathy and rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Words, the Bible. It was truly a "praying on site with insight" experience. I might add here that actually doing what our text commands was what led to that moment on the bus.
The command in our text is for you and me to do more thinking of Jesus in the way our text commands us. "Consider, perceive, observe, Understand Jesus." You may say, "Well how can anyone even begin to do that?" That is for us to "figure out." But the command is still there, "Consider Jesus. Perceive Jesus, Observe Jesus," and, yes, "Understand Jesus." You know where that process begins—� in His Words. When you read the Bible, "consider, perceive, observe, understand." Other places in the Bible call it, "....and in His Law does he meditate day and night." The beginning place to walk in Hebrews 3:1 is that upon which Jesus says the wise build, His Words.
This is what people do with that and those they love and value highly. Need i say more.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray for help in learning more how to do this passage. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only s.emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'" "Looking unto Jesus" Hebrews 12:2
