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Wednesday... Let's keep at it.


Hebrews 3:13a (NIRV). "But build one another up every day."

Wednesday... Let's keep at it.

Hebrews 3:13a, (NIRV) says, "But build one another up every day." We really do need each other, don't we?


There are a lot of reasons why God created families and building up each one in our family is so important. That is also why we have churches. But we seem to be trying all the time to tear each other up and bring us down.

Now verse 12 in The Message says, "So watch your steps, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God."

Yes, we are imperfect and the Evil One is doing all he can to trip us up. And it is so much easier for us to point our fingers than to build each other up.

Verse 12 in the Amplified Bible says, "Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God." So how do we do that? Verse 13 says, "But continually encourage one another everyday, as long as it is called 'Today' [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellian] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamor and sophistication]."

You see we are in a battle and too much of our methods are not working, especially in some families and some churches and especially out in our daily lives. We are constantly pointing at and condemning instead of encouraging and building up one another.

Verse 14 says, "For we [believers] have become partakers of Christ [sharing in all the Messiah has for us] if only we hold firm our newborn confidence [which originally led us to Him] until the end." The method we use too many times tears down newborn confidence instead of strengthening it.

Verses 13-14 in the New International Reader's Version says, "But build one another up every day. Do it as long as there is still time. Then none of you will become stubborn. You won't be fooled by sin's tricks. We belong to Christ if we hold tightly to the faith we had at first. But we must hold tightly to the end."

So let's build one another up every day and continually encourage one another everyday. The Message says, "so keep each other on your toes so that sin doesn't slow down your reflexes." And let's keep at it. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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