Simply Put... God is Faithful

Whatever may come the way of the church, we know that the faithfulness we exhibit is grounded in the faithfulness of Christ. Without relying on the faithfulness of Christ, to the point of death, the church then and today has little to stand on.

Simply put… because G-d is faithful, we are assured that we may live more faithful lives. 

We do not have to live in fear of weariness or hardship.
We do not have to live in fear of what if’s.
We do not have to live as though we are doing this on our own.

Each of the people listed by the author of this letter, referencing stories from the Hebrew Bible were not exactly the perfect people or events we think G-d would use.

Moses, before leading Israel to freedom through the Red Sea, killed a man.
The battle of Jericho gave a new home to Israel but another group of people was displaced.
Rahab may not have been a prostitute.
David, the great king of Israel, had a man sent to the front lines and killed so that David could then take the man’s wife as his own.
Throughout the Psalms, many of which are attributed to David, we read of weariness and difficulty in keeping one’s faith.

But through the saints imperfections and our own, through the weariness experienced by the saints and the weariness we experience, the endurance of Jesus in the journey we all find ourselves in is sufficient when our endurance wavers.

Christ is the perfecter of our faith. Not our individual-personal faith but rather the faith we cling to as a community, the faith of saints of today and saints who have gone before us. Christ’s faithfulness perfected the faith we claim and remains sufficient for us today when our faith wanes. Not only are we the beneficiaries of the witness of the saints but we are the beneficiaries of G-d’s faithfulness through the saints and throughout Jesus Christ.