closing words

If we write an email,or a letter, or a card (does anyone do that anymore?!) or if we write a private message on Facebook, toward the end we sometimes write a bunch of random stuff, trying to finish up all we wanted to say to that person.

That's what the writer of Hebrews did in chapter 13. (No, we don't really know who wrote it.)

So read through these & see what applies to life for you...


Hebrews 13
1 Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.

2 Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!

3 Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies. (dan note: if we REALLY thought this applies to all of us, how would we then live?)

  4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

  5 Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said,

"I will never fail you.
  I will never abandon you."
(dan note: the second part of verse 5 is my life verse - iow, it's the verse I carry with me, that difnes my life w/ God, & is something I hold on to through thick & thin - it's God directly speaking to me.)


6 So we can say with confidence,

"The LORD is my helper,
  so I will have no fear.
  What can mere people do to me?"

  7 Remember your leaders who taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith.
 
 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your strength comes from God's grace, not from rules about food, which don't help those who follow them.