Hebrews 10:22 Devotional Scripture -Draw Near to God

 

This is the believer's blood-bought privilege. We are invited to have an audience, not with this world's celebrities, but with the Sovereign God of the universe.  With this perfect cleansing available to us, we can draw near to God in a way never available to someone under the Old Covenant.

 The pure water refers the Holy Spirit using the word of God to cleanse our lives from daily defilement. We are cleansed once and for all from the guilt of sin by the death of Christ, but we are cleansed repeatedly from the defilement of sin by the Spirit through the word of God.

The writer of Hebrews is writing this because the believers were discouraged and they had allowed their discouragement to put distance between them and God. They were not drawing near to God. They had lost their intimate relationship with Jesus and nothing was going right in their lives. So God told them, “Draw near to Me.”

 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,

for he who promised is faithful.”

Hebrews 10:23

Our only hope is in Christ. We must not allow discouragement to tempt us to give up the future, unseen blessings for the present, visible things of this world. The reason we can hold fast is because He who promised is faithful and it is far better to trust in His faithfulness rather than our own. God’s promises can never fail; no one who trusts in Him will ever be disappointed. Jesus is coming back just as He has promised, and His people will be with Him forever.

 

“Therefore do not throw away your confidence,

which has a great reward.” Hebrews 10:35

 

Don't throw away your trust now—it carries with it a rich reward in the world to come. Trusting in God, placing our confidence in Him carries a present reward in His peace, His joy, His abiding presence and His power to overcome obstacles in our lives; but it will have a greater payment of reward in the life to come.