Intuitively there is something within people that tends to back away from Jesus. Many people are comfortable with a remote and abstract God, but Jesus represents a God who has come to us. He represents a God who is making an absolute claim on our lives. Most people want a God who doesn’t interfere too much with their lives. They are happy to observe a moral law and even participate in religious ceremonies, but as soon as God comes to establish his rule in our lives, they recoil. The writer of Hebrews was addressing the temptation of his Jewish readers to back away from Jesus and return to their religion of law and ceremony. We should not think that this temptation is not as real for us as it was for them. One of the greatest temptations that Christians have faced, and continue to face, is the temptation to regress from being a disciple of Jesus to an observer of a moral and ceremonial based religion that essentially keeps God at a ‘safe distance’. Is Jesus really the Lord of your life? Are you following him or are you chasing your own goals and hoping that Jesus will follow you? If you find that you have become distracted and have let your commitment to Jesus slip, then know that God doesn’t want to condemn you. You don’t have to change to be forgiven. You must simply turn back to Jesus, and he will lead you step by step to a fuller life in which you will rest in his purpose for you.
Commit yourself to Jesus and ask him to lead you through the next step that he wants you to take.
Read Hebrews 3
