The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Hebrews 13:7-13, “Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

13 So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

14 For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.”

Do you not remember imitating people when you were young? You’d watch them carefully, pick up on some peculiar aspect of their walk or talk, and then repeat it over and over again until it almost “became yours”? It is called “mimicking.”

That is what Paul means when he speaks of our imitating their faith. It’s not mocking; it’s the opposite of that. It’s an earnest effort to become like someone else. This is precisely what the LORD wants of us! It’s not fake; it’s a genuine desire to be like the person we admire.

Who do you admire more than Jesus Christ? Hopefully, no one! For there is none other more worthy than Christ. Who is there other than Jesus, who loves you so? There is none!

Heartily in Christ,

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

United States of America.

“We will never know that Christ is all we need, until He becomes all that we have.” –Corrie ten Boom