Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from Hebrews 6:13-20.

 

“¹³ For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”  ¹⁵ And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.  ¹⁶ For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.  ¹⁷ In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, ¹⁸ so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.  ¹⁹ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, ²⁰ where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”  Hebrews 6:13-20.

 

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“I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”  God made the promise and “interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us”.  So, what does the promise mean to us?  What is this “hope we have as an anchor of the soul”?  

 

Galatians 4:3 refers to the promise of the Holy Spirit:  “in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”  

 

Galatians 5:5 refers to the hope of righteousness:  “For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.”

 

Hebrews 12:22-24 refers to the hope and promise of heaven and the presence of God, Jesus, angels, and “the spirits of the righteous made perfect”:    “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.”

 

Titus 1:2 and Titus 3:7 refer to “… the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,”  Titus 1:2  “so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”  Titus 3:7

 

We don’t search Scriptures to find the end of the promise and hope;  there is no end:  “but just as it is written,