Anytime you are waiting on anything of significance, there will always be the nearly irresistible temptation to give up when it gets hard. The hardest times call for the greatest hope. The biggest temptation in the tension of waiting is to let go of the rope—give up too soon. Giving up too soon was just what the Hebrew Christians to whom this book is addressed were considering.

The Author of Hebrews has spent much time demonstrating the infinite superiority of Jesus over the best the culture and the religion of the past had to offer. If everything the Author of Hebrews has said about Jesus being better, Jesus being enough and Jesus being everything is true, how do we draw near in the face of the hardest times?

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