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Question of the Day: Why should we encourage one another daily?
Today’s Scripture: Hebrews 3:7-19 (S.O.A.P. Hebrews 3: 12-14)
Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing Godās Word in Faith
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,[a]
āOh, that today you would listen as he speaks![b]
8 āDo not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
9 āThere your fathers tested me and tried me,[c] and they saw my works for forty years.
10 āTherefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, āTheir hearts are always wandering[d] and they have not known my ways.ā
11 āAs I swore in my anger, āThey will never enter my rest!āā[e]
12 See to it,[f] brothers and sisters,[g] that none of you has[h] an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes[i] the living God.[j] 13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called āToday,ā that none of you may become hardened by sinās deception. 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence[k] firm until the end. 15 As it says,[l] āOh, that today you would listen as he speaks![m] Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.ā[n] 16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Mosesā leadership?[o] 17 And against whom was God[p] provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?[q] 18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 19 So[r] we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
We should encourage one another daily because we are often faced with daily obstacles that can cause us to lose sight of God’s plan for us. We are to be there for one another because we are brothers and sisters in christ.
A sinful heart slowly eats away at our relationship with God.
Unbelief is a result of a choice – and those choices lead us to worldly desires and sinful living – which wreaks havoc on our hearts. Being built up and encouraged keeps our hearts from being hardened. Build each other up in faith and rejoice in the Lord and watch for all the amazing things that will result from time spent together.