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希伯来书：6:9-12：9亲爱的弟兄们，我们虽是这样说，却深信你们的行为强过这些，而且近乎得救。10因为神并非不公义，竟忘记你们所作的工和你们为他名所显的爱心，就是先前伺候圣徒，如今还是伺候。11我们愿你们各人都显出这样的殷勤，使你们有满足的指望，一直到底。12并且不懈怠，总要效法那些凭信心和忍耐承受应许的人。
《希伯来书》有两大主题贯穿始终。其一是“耶稣好过”我们在旧约中能找到的任何事物。其二的焦点落在“勉励”这两个字上。上帝带我们来到这世上并呼召我们进入基督的大家庭，可以在信心上互相鼓励。《希伯来书》的作者写的这些话非常鼓舞人心，并为我们描绘了一幅美丽的蓝图，就是要效法耶稣，彼此勉励。
首先，当你和那些相信（耶稣）的人谈话时，要记住他们是神的子民。他们的信心也许暂时处于低谷，但我们中间的任何人不也是如此吗？但是，上帝没有忘记他们！上帝也不会忘记我们。我们确信自己能够去天堂，不是因为我们的信心有多坚强，而是因为我们有一位耐心等候我们的上帝，他会引领我们回天家。你所相信的这些，一个信心软弱的主内兄弟或姐妹也同样相信。勉励他/她们，正如上帝勉励你那样。
与此同时，当我们彼此勉励的时候，让我们也彼此坦诚相待。《希伯来书》的作者勉励他的读者要殷勤，并警告他们不要懈怠。如果你主内的兄弟姐妹一个月只去一次教会，那对于他们的信心是不好且不健康的。如果我是那个人，我希望会有人来和我谈谈忠心聆听上帝话语的问题。
“让我们彼此勉励，”今天你有哪个认识的人可以勉励吗？
祷告：亲爱的耶稣，谢谢你将我连接到一个基督的大家庭里，这里的人真正关心我的信心，当我软弱的时候他们会勉励我。请赐给我爱和勇气，让我也能够勉励其他主内弟兄姐妹的信心，我这样祷告是奉你的名。阿们。
Hebrews 6: 9 Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case—the things that have to do with salvation. 10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. 11 We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. 12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
There are two themes that run through the book of Hebrews. One is, “Jesus is better than …” anything we find in the Old Testament. The other focuses on the word “encourage.” God put us here and called us into a Christian family to encourage one another in our faith. These words from the writer to the Hebrews are very encouraging and give us a beautiful blueprint to follow in encouraging each other.
First, when you are talking to people who do believe, remember that they are God’s people. Their faith may be in a slump right now, but isn’t that true of any of us? Yet, God will not forget them! And he will not forget us. We are convinced that we will go to heaven, not because we are so strong in our faith, but because we have a God who is patient with us and who will shepherd us home to heaven. What you believe about yourself is also true of a weak brother or sister in Christ. Encourage them with the same encouragement that you have from God.
At the same time, let’s be honest with each other as we encourage each other. The writer to the Hebrews encourages his readers to be diligent and warns them about being lazy. If your brother or sister in Christ is going to church once a month, that’s not good and healthy for their faith. I would hope that if I were that person, someone would come and talk to me about my faithfulness to hearing God’s Word.
“Let us encourage one another.” Who do you know that you can encourage today?
Prayer: Dear Jesus, thank you for connecting me to a Christian family, where people care about my faith enough to encourage me when I am weak. Give me the love and courage to also encourage my brother and sister in Christ in their faith. I ask this in our name. Amen.