My God and My Country

My Daily Meditation

Today’s Reading

The Epistle to the Hebrews

Chapter 3:1-19

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ

Read in order to strengthen your belief, faith, and understanding.

1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Jesus:

2 Who was faithful to him that hath appointed him, even as Moses was in all his house.

3 For this man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he which hath builded the house, hath more honor than the house.

4 For every house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God.

5 Now Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a witness of the things which should be spoken after.

6 But Christ is as the Son, over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast that confidence and that rejoicing of that hope unto the end.

7 Wherefore, as the holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

9 Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They err ever in their heart, neither have they known my ways.

11 Therefore I swear in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

12 Take heed brethren, lest at any time there be in any of you an evil heart, and unfaithful, to depart away from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the end that beginning, wherewith we are upholden,

15 So long as it is said, Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some when they heard, provoked him to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that obeyed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.