“Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity… beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you … And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. … He swore by Himself, saying, ‘I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.’”
Hebrews 6:1a, 9-14
Good News: There are better things concerning us!
The full assurance is everything that has been promised to you. Diligence is what gets us there. When we get promises from God we can become sluggish (dull, blunt) in the pursuit of those promises. Abraham finally began to believe that “what God has promised God is going to perform” and he chose to diligently wait on the Lord, pursue Him, and seek Him until he saw the fulfillment of the promise. When that attitude becomes mine and yours, we are not dull anymore and God will so arrange our lives to help (make) us seek Him more diligently. He will put our blades to the grinding stone to keep us daily waiting patiently on Him, seeking Him with all of our hearts, standing, believing, and crying out for those things that He has spoken to us in our lives.
God doesn’t just let us stay in one place. If we stay in one place, we will not get to experience the better things concerning us. So, there is always this pressing on to maturity with Christ and to do that, we have to let some things go that will keep us from getting to the next place that God has for us.
In God’s waiting room, as we are patiently waiting for the promises to be fulfilled, He purifies us by dealing with our hearts and getting all the unbelief out. Why? Because God really wants for us to have and experience everything that is available in Christ in this life and He wants that more than we want it.
God is pushing us towards faith and patience so that we will inherit our promises!